Does anyone hear the propaganda if there is no one there to listen? The republicans are really fucking themselves on this one.

Don't forget the maga influencers as well

The press only had a presence in the pentagon because it was advantageous to have them there. The media isn't disappearing just because they are no longer given easy access. They will just have less of a relationship with the department of defense. Yes, it's bad for the journalists, but it's worse for the administration. Those reporters had been there so that they could spread the official talking points. Letting reporters become dependent on their easy access and maintaining a reasonable working relationship makes it a lot easier to seed stories, to ask for small favors and to give off the record comments that shape narratives. Ol' Whiskeyleaks is failing at coercion and in the process is sacrificing influence. That he doesn't understand this is amazing considering he was (theoretically) a journalist until less than a year ago.

As with so many things, they are destroying what their predecessors spent the last century building by being both malicious and incompetent.

As the guy said on NPR, people have phones. The reporters can still do their jobs without being physically present in the building.

There is essentially no legitimate mainstream media anymore. They've all been acquired by some late stage cap oligarch, so anything they print will be filtered through the lens of disseminating propaganda and manufacturing content on their behalf.

Edit: I'm in no way advocating that "alternative" news is less bias or more trustworthy. The point is that you can't inherently trust ANY media by brand name recognition, the same way that you can no longer trust that brand name equals quality in general; that only applied when there was actual competition instead of a handful of corporations owning the majority of every industry, all sharing the same board of directors, reporting to the same few hundred oligarchs.

A few months ago I would accuse Americans here of being a bit hysterical but not any more.

OAN there licking boots

Sounds like super-terrorism to me

Yep, that's a very common thing with these Trump policies, they are designed so he cannot lose.
If they go along with it Trump wins, if they don't, the opposition to him won't have access, and Trump also wins.

They'll just add them to the group chat by accident

I'll be honest, the narrative against journalism is starting to feel a little sus and a bit like a propaganda campaign.

Not to say that there aren't plenty of things to criticize corporate media for, but I think turning in their badges and refusing to play the game was the right call in a no win situation.

They dont believe its lies though. I think even the most evil person has convinced themself they are on the good side.

We see this with Israel most recently, defending complete genocide of children and families while sleeping well at night, because they think its the right thing to do.

Pretty insane.