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submitted 21 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The New York Times sued the Defense Department on Monday for the second time in five months, arguing that a requirement that journalists be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment.

The escort policy is “an unconstitutional attempt by the Pentagon to prevent independent reporting on military affairs,” a Times spokesman, Charlie Stadtlander, said in an email to The Associated Press.

“As we have said before: Americans deserve visibility into how their government is being run, and the actions the military is taking in their name and with their tax dollars.”

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[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

Dear NYT. You shit the bed, repeatedly on purpose. You are now welcome to sleep in it. Congratulations on your hard won fuckery.

Eat a bag of dicks.

[-] pwalshj@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Would limiting the use of words like "genocide", "Palestine", and "refugee camps" be considered preventing independent reporting?

[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago

a requirement that journalists be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment.

I'm not American, but isn't the Pentagon home to a bunch of top secret information?

I would've assumed it's not open to the public at all, and that anyone that doesn't have clearance would need an escort, regardless of profession.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The top secret information is held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIFs), within the pentagon and elsewhere. The security standards for the SCIFs are comprehensive. It is nigh impossible to accidentally end up in one.

The Pentagon itself is ginormous. It controls an upcoming defense budget of 1,500 billion dollars, far more than what can reasonably be kept secret or top secret. 24,000 people work there. And it has its own dedicated metro station. So most of it is not, in fact, classified.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

nty is murdochs news rag though.

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