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This kind of boycott needs to happen for the WH press corps. If there is a fear of not being selected to ask questions, or being expelled from the room for aski
by alkonaut 1y ago
This kind of boycott needs to happen for the WH press corps. If there is a fear of not being selected to ask questions, or being expelled from the room for asking tough questions, then everyone needs to walk. Immediately.
- rob74 1y agoWell, the White House press corps has already been changed to (how do I write this in a way that won't get me downvoted?) include more reporters friendly to the current administration since the White House asserted the right to determine itself who gets access (formerly it was the White House Correspondents' Association), so the chances of such a more-or-less unified boycott are slim. And I don't have any doubts that the Pentagon will also quickly find enough "warm bodies" (besides those from OANN) to prevent an embarrassing almost empty room at the next press conference...
- TimorousBestie 1y ago> (how do I write this in a way that won't get me downvoted?) It’s sad that your speech has been chilled by the misuse of the karma system by some large faction of users here.
- emsign 1y agoIt's less about having an effect but all about moral integrity. They want to signal that they still abide to their professional standards in order to keep their reputation among their peers and the public, those who aren't gleichgeschaltet (yet).
- mexicocitinluez 1y ago> And I don't have any doubts that the Pentagon will also quickly find enough "warm bodies" (besides those from OANN) You mean like Tim Pool lol? Could you, in a million years, ever imagine seeing his face in the White House briefing room? We're a pathetic country right now.
- immibis 1y agoThey should all ask the hard questions. If they're going to not have access either way, why not take the way that also exposes the corruption?
- 9dev 1y agoGame theory applies here. There will always be one journalist without any moral qualms that’ll stay, betting on everyone else leaving, and making a scoop.
- psychoslave 1y agohttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0900636106 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0900636106 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1212126109 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1212126109 https://sjdm.org/~baron/journal/14/14715/jdm14715.html https://sjdm.org/~baron/journal/14/14715/jdm14715.html
- ohdeardear 1y ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> There will always be one journalist without any moral qualms that’ll stay They’re outed as stooges. That doesn’t matter to the influencer crowd. But I bet this costs the DoD a lot of narrative-shaping power.
- beej71 1y agoI'm growing more convinced that there is a significant subset of the population that wants all of the press to be stooges.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> there is a significant subset of the population that wants all of the press to be stooges A significant fraction of Americans are addicted to rage bait. They don’t care about accuracy as much as entertainment and ideological predictability.
- fatbird 1y agoWhen they're obviously lying to you, at least you know that they're lying.
- assimpleaspossi 1y ago>>there is a fear of not being selected to ask questions That's not exactly what's happening. >>The rules limit where reporters can go without an official escort and convey “an unprecedented message of intimidation” for anyone in the Defense Department who might want to speak to a reporter without the approval of Hegseth’s team On NPR (National Public Radio) a few days ago, a reporter said they could wander the halls of the Pentagon and ask anyone they ran into any question about anything. This will not be allowed anymore and, considering it's the Pentagon, doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoThey wouldn't have full access, but yes, journalists should be able to ask anyone anything. Asking is legal, and it's up to the person being asked to not say anything that a journalist isn't supposed to know. What bad things have happened from what you're describing?
- assimpleaspossi 1y agoI would think anyone visiting this board would be educated enough to figure out for themselves what could happen should a foreign agent posing as a reporter asking questions inside a top military organization. Or any reporter discreetly obtaining information they shouldn't have.
- christophilus 1y agoWell, military personnel shouldn’t be sharing sensitive information with any reporter, so not a problem? Once you tell a reporter, you tell your enemy (assuming your enemy can read newspapers).
- salawat 1y agoWhen your "enemy" becomes the oversight providing public, we have a major problem. A government with public alignment and maybe a slow leak will be fine. A government without public alignment needs to have every crack pried open until alignment with the public is restored.
- walkabout 1y agoThe press corps is already 50% right wing podcasters and 5th-tier far right / conspiracy outlets. And any time one of the remaining actual reporters asks even a mundane and non-confrontational question they just get called names, told their network/paper is failing, told their question is “nasty”, and don’t get an answer. The access they have is even more pointless than it usually is, they may as well not show up.