A week after the bulk of the Pentagon’s journalists handed in their media credentials and walked out the door rather than sign Pete Hegseth’s restrictive press pledge, the Defense Department announced that it was ushering in a “next generation” press corps that had embraced the policy.
While all of the broadcast networks – including Hegseth’s former employer Fox News – will no longer have any reporters in the halls of the Pentagon, along with major news publications like The New York Times and Washington Post, DOD spokesperson Sean Parnell declared that they will be replaced by “a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists.”