The hosts of The View heaped praise on right-wing networks Fox News and Newsmax for joining other mainstream media outlets in refusing to sign Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s restrictive new policy, declaring that “freedom of the press is an American issue.”
With Pentagon beat reporters handing in their press credentials en masse following the Defense Department’s Tuesday night deadline to acknowledge the restrictions, which media lawyers and free press advocates say would criminalize basic reporting, the ABC talk show led off Wednesday’s show with the latest developments over Hegseth’s press crackdown.
