Pentagon Boots CNN, Washington Post, Others from Workspaces to Make Room for Conservative OutletsKristina Wong 7 Feb 2025
The Trump Pentagon, in a memo Friday evening, announced it is kicking out CNN and three other news outlets from their desks inside the building to make space for conservative ones.
CNN’s workspace — an office from which they do live broadcasts — will now go to Newsmax. In addition, the Washington Post, the Hill, and military news blog The War Zone will lose their desks or whatever kind of workspace they have in the building.
The changes are in addition to the ones made last week when the Pentagon announced they were kicking out the New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio, and Politico from their workspaces to give them to the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network, and the Huffington Post.
The Pentagon has for decades loaned workspaces to journalists who cover the building, and many of those outlets — particularly legacy media — have had the same desks for decades. But now, the Trump administration has shaken things up to give non-legacy outlets the same opportunities.
The memo, from Acting Press Secretary John Ullyot, said the goal “is to broaden access to the limited office spaces of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege of working from those spaces.”
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