The Pentagon’s latest revisions of its new rules for journalists covering the Defense Department are inadequate, the Pentagon Press Association said Wednesday, auguring a broader rejection by media outlets that have been told they must pledge to adhere to the restrictive regulations by Tuesday.
The Defense Department has in recent weeks come under fire from reporters, press freedom advocates and Washington lawmakers over a new policy that asks journalists to affirm that they will not gather any information the department does not explicitly authorize them to access. If they don’t sign the pledge, they will lose their press credentials to cover the Pentagon, a sanction critics have called an affront to the First Amendment’s free press protections.
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