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Journalism Doesn’t Give Up Just Because a Door Shuts Down (opens the original)
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Last June, Pete Hegseth barred reporters from the Pentagon’s press office.That’s right. The secretary of defense banned journalists from entering the very office charged with disseminating Defense Department information to the public. Hegseth had already shut down the press working space inside the Pentagon and he’d required journalists to have a Pentagon minder when they were in the building.The restrictions didn’t go so well.In the months since, news organizations have not let the Pentagon def
Hey WHCA, Let's Not Do this Again (opens the original)
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The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner should have never happened. Now it’s behind us.Trump got to display his immaturity and spew his invective and insults. It wasn’t shocking. We’ve heard it all before. He did wear a tux — high-end duds for a low-class performance. Thankfully, there were individual moments when truth confronted power: Wolf Blitzer presented the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability to Wall Street Journal journalists who reported on Trump’s associati
When Duality Has a Single Purpose (opens the original)
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