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BoingBoing on Wednesday: Mainstream media quit Pentagon rather than sign pledge
Update: By end of day, a few more signed up; this post originally identified only one, OANN. The new Pentagon press corps appears to be The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OANN, a Turkish newspaper and a blogger from Korea.
“I can no longer reconcile my role with the direction the paper has chosen, including its increasing willingness to promote partisan materials, publish demonstrably false information, and manipulate the reporting of its ground staff to shape the worldview of our readers,” Mr. Thornebrooke wrote.
coming from a person who made the choice to work for Falun Gong’s QAnon newspaper, this is hilarious
According to Mr. Thornebrooke, reporters are not permitted to review final versions of articles before they are published, contrary to standard practice in most newsrooms. In many instances, he said, top-ranking editors “would suddenly be taking accurate information out of my stories and putting in false info.”
My guy, you work the Falun Fucking Gong newspaper.
What an odd person… Lacking in integrity enough to apply and work for them but has too much integrity to actually do what they tell them to do.
I guess nobody promised the right would make sense.
Weird, why would these people working at such an organization care about it?
I’m glad they have some standards, but they are very very low standards.