Pete Hegseth Gives the Best Answer Ever to Pentagon Media That Have Balked at New Rules of Conduct

[mystery-ak]

Pete Hegseth Gives the Best Answer Ever to Pentagon Media That Have Balked at New Rules of Conduct
By streiff | 9:31 AM on October 14, 2025

The Pentagon Press corps is balking at following the new rules of conduct Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued in September; see Pentagon Limits Reporters' Ability to Leak Classified Information, and They Are Not Happy – RedState.

At issue is detailed guidance issued by the Pentagon that requires reporters to wear badges, to be escorted when outside certain areas of the Pentagon, and to refrain from encouraging military members and civilian employees to leak classified information.

https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1977828217315549301

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[mystery-ak]

Only one media org agrees to Pentagon’s new press rules, Hegseth trolls the daylights out of the rest

Media outlets are refusing to sign off on the Pentagon’s new press policy, which restricts access to certain areas without an escort and requires that reporters wear visible badges, balking at what they claim is an infringement on their First Amendment rights.

As of Monday, the Associated Press, The Atlantic, CNN, Newsmax, the New York Times, NPR, Reuters, and the Washington Post all said that their reporters would not sign a document that acknowledges the “common sense media procedures,” setting up a showdown with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that will likely end up in the courts.

News organizations must sign the agreement by 5 p.m. on Tuesday or turn in their press credentials if they decline to adhere to the policy, which was announced by Hegseth earlier this year.

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[Wingnut]

Leakers gotta leak.  They will just go Deep Throat and meet the press in parking garages or at Fang Fangs boyfriends house.

[Smokin Joe]

His house, his rules.

If they don't want to be able to lie convincingly with all those unnamed sources, just stop them at the front desk.

Deny them access. Works for me.

The 'Fourth Estate' has been the 'Fifth Column' for a while now.

[txradioguy]

The media have done this to themselves. And the fact they are running around on social media like a bunch of entitled brats crying about "muh access!!" just goes to show that you can't hate the media enough.

[txradioguy]

I don't seem to remember any outrage from these journalists crying about "muh access!!" at the Pentagon...being upset when then VP Biden had one of his staffers put a reporter in a closet during an event.