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The Pentagon announced it is barring journalists from its press office, calling it a classified space. The move raises serious transparency concerns and limits media access to military information.
The Pentagon announced it's closing its press office to journalists, reclassifying the space as classified. This isn't a subtle shift—it's an explicit end to one of the military's main channels for distributing information to the public. Reporters who've relied on official Pentagon briefings and document requests now have no formal avenue to access military spokespeople or information.
This move flips a decades-old norm. The Pentagon's press office exists precisely to communicate with the public through media. Calling it classified is semantically creative but operationally significant—it's a way to cut off press access without formally saying press access is cut off. It mirrors broader moves across the administration to tighten information flow: Trump's intelligence nominee has no intelligence background, the AI executive order grants early government access to unreleased models, and Philadelphia police are tracking speech about AI. When you string these together, you're watching visibility into government operations narrow dramatically.
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