Summary
The Pentagon announced a new annual media rotation program, removing established outlets like NBC News, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico from dedicated workspaces.
The memo orders these organizations to vacate their offices in two weeks, while replacing them with outlets such as OANN, New York Post, Breitbart, and HuffPost.
NBC News expressed disappointment over losing long-held technical capabilities essential for timely reporting.
The move follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s narrow confirmation and signals a broader effort to reshape Pentagon media access, transforming U.S. government communications permanently.
The new outlets rotating in are One America News Network — which will take NBC News’s spot — the New York Post, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost.
This is obviously 100% political. And the way of the new administration. They are excluding any opposition however moderate, everywhere they can, and then replace them with political supporters.
Welcome to the new authoritarian antidemocratic America!
I know you didn’t highlight it but HuffPost is just as bad as the others nowadays…maybe even worse because it tries to hide behind supposed “balanced” coverage
OK I didn’t know they’d become that bad.
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Why the fuck are we letting them do this‽
Because people are still telling us this is better than violence. We also don’t have organization. “Lone wolf” attacks will not work and just justify further erosion. We need a pack but no one knows how to form one.
So what does 21st century resistance look like? It seems that the bystander effect Germany experienced 100 years ago is happening in the USA now. What would have prevented the rise of the Third Reich? Protests are ineffectual, and I have no idea how to organize or resist - I’m just trying to stay informed in a horrified and helpless kind of way, which accomplishes nothing more than my passive complicity.
Do we need a modern Black Panthers movement? If a brilliant and charismatic leader like Malcolm X were to come forward and lead us, would we be inadvertently accelerating the inevitable martial law or creating the excuse for Civil War II Red vs Blue? Is it even feasible to envision an effective plan from a demographic that prefers pacifism?
Whatever action is made peaceful or not will be used to accelerate martial law. What happens following will not be entirely peaceable but the degree of fighting is unknown.
The alternative is holocaust II so…
A general strike (which is a peaceful method) beats martial law, not the other way around. Not easy to organize by any stretch, but historically effective.
No general strike has ever been allowed nonviolently. How do we organize a general strike when 32% support the shit, 36% don’t care, and the other 31% are trying not to be the ones that get shuffled off to camps first? I’m not trying to be defeatist I’m genuinely asking.
Other people being violent towards you does not make your actions violent. Also, there’s actually been many general strikes that were not attacked by state forces at least. There have probably been hundreds of general strikes through history. They’re common enough that they’re not really covered in history classes past a sentence or two, if at all. It was actually a general strike that staved off the first coup against the German civilian govt post-WW1.
Organizing, I’m not sure.
It’s not really a “we are letting them do this” situation. It’s more of a “he’s essentially captured and removed any and all options we have to stop him from doing it.”
The “we are letting him do this” argument was valid prior to the election when everyone tried warning the non-voters/protest voters how it would go. Let’s refer to this as the “fuck around phase.”
And we are now here with him doing it- because they refused to listen. We’ll call this the “find out phase.”
Glad to see those
legal settlementsbribes are paying off. /sMaybe if I just bend the knee harder daddy will stop beating me. Maybe just once more.
Almost like for profit “news” is antithetical to journalism.
Replaced with Pravda and the Wochenschau.
Can’t wait for Saturday Morning Propaganda! /s
Not a great move, but maybe a spark might go off in some of these orgs and they will stop worrying about putting facts behind “access” to these assholes.
They’re gonna fold and fo whatever they have to to please the fascists.
“Rotation program”? More like “sit on this and rotate”
My take is that we have entered the apex of the MAGA phase.
Now that the incompetents have achieved power, they will start to destroy themselves through stupidity.
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of damage will be visited upon the heads of the innocent. But it is going to take this destruction to demonstrate just what a terrible idea it was to install these dickheads in the first place.
After all, the voters were warned, and also got a taste of chaos in the first series. They still voted him in.
Ok, let Trump set the electorate’s hair on fire and see what happens next.
Apathy. Apathy is what happens next.
“I have bills to pay, I’m not taking time off to protest”
“I’m not the one being deported, sure, I feel bad but it’s not like one voice will make a difference”
Etc…
“they’re just being deported not murdered it’s not that bad”
Not sure why they’re highlighting NBC News, they’re the one I’m most okay losing.
I think in this case it may be because this particular post was from NBC news, I imagine the other outlets will focus on themselves as well.
