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Epoch Times Reporter Resigns After Publication Signs Pentagon Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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Paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20251019175231/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/media/epoch-times-pentagon-press-rules.html

BoingBoing on Wednesday: Mainstream media quit Pentagon rather than sign pledge

Update: By end of day, a few more signed up; this post originally identified only one, OANN. The new Pentagon press corps appears to be The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OANN, a Turkish newspaper and a blogger from Korea.

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

According to Mr. Thornebrooke, reporters are not permitted to review final versions of articles before they are published, contrary to standard practice in most newsrooms. In many instances, he said, top-ranking editors “would suddenly be taking accurate information out of my stories and putting in false info.”

My guy, you work the Falun Fucking Gong newspaper.