Pentagon upbraids mainstream media in briefing with pro-Trump press corps

Defense Department press secretary lays into ‘legacy media,’ especially The Washington Post, at a news conference for the Pentagon’s now largely right-wing outlets

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The Pentagon’s press secretary excoriated the mainstream press, and particularly The Washington Post, at a news briefing Tuesday for the Pentagon’s newly credentialed media representatives, the first such event since Defense Department press restrictions spurred a mass exodus of established news organizations in October.

The “legacy media chose to self-deport” from the Pentagon, Kingsley Wilson, the press secretary, said in her 30-minute briefing for the now largely right-wing press corps. She also criticized lawmakers who counseled military personnel to disobey any illegal orders.

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