Pentagon’s new press corps is the stuff of nightmares
The Trump administration announcement On Wednesday, a far-right media group gained press access to the Pentagon.
The announcement comes a week later real journalists organized a walkout And refused to sign to new rules that require all reports to be pre-approved by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Even Fox News opposed the new rules.
“New media and independent journalists have created the formula to bypass the lies of the mainstream media and deliver the real news directly to the American people,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. written the. “Their reach and impact are collectively far more effective and balanced than those of the right-thinking media who have chosen to expel themselves from the Pentagon. »
Among the Pentagon’s new media pool is Timcast, racist conspirator Tim Pool’s podcast, on which he asserts that “multiculturalism” is behind mass shootings and that women should face public shame about the number of sexual partners they have had.
Pool was granted access to the Pentagon even though – or perhaps because – he was part of a group of right-wing influencers paid by the Russian government to spread disinformation. He received payments of the Russian company Tenet Media to make politically divisive videos in order to weaken the US government and its opposition to Russia.
Russia probably had no idea that with Donald Trump becoming president, one of its paid sidekicks would have a front-row seat to the inner workings of the US military.
Likewise, the founder of MyPillow and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s media outlet, LindellTV, will now regurgitate Hegseth’s nonsense to the public. Lindell was among Trump’s courtiers who falsely insisted that Trump won the 2020 election.
Gateway Pundit, the conservative blog founded and run by Jim Hoft, also received Pentagon credentials. Hoft, once described by The media watchdog group Media Matters for America, billed as “the stupidest man on the Internet,” has spent decades promoting debunked right-wing conspiracy theories and other falsehoods.
Most recently, Gateway Pundit paid a settlement in a defamation lawsuit filed in 2024 by two Georgia election officials after falsely accusing them of rigging the results of the 2020 election.
The Pentagon reports are of paramount importance right now.
The Trump administration is engaged in the war in South America, which some experts consider illegal. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin ignored Trump’s half-hearted attempt to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, which recently included THE bombing of a kindergarten with children present. And in the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Hamas continued despite Trump complaints that he obtained a “peace agreement”.
The Pentagon’s new right-wing press corps is woefully ill-equipped to handle independent reporting. But when it comes to producing stories that get Hegseth’s approval, it will succeed with flying colors.
