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Reporters Enjoy New DOD Press Room

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Ivan L. Nagy, 4/2/26

Headline:  “Pushed Out. Reinstated. Pushed Out Again.”

Subhead:  “Last week, New York Times reporters were supposed to return to the Pentagon’s corridors. Instead, the entire press corps was banished to an annex, and the Times is back in court.”

“Ordered to let journalists back in, the Pentagon instead banished them to an annex on the far side of its parking lot. A Pentagon reporter called that ‘an elaborate troll.’ Another told me it was ‘a bullshit move.’ ‘How weird is that?’ Paul Friedman, a United States District judge, remarked at a hearing on Monday. ‘Is it Catch-22? Is it Kafka?’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/news/new-york-times-pentagon-kicked-removed-reinstated-hegseth-department-war-credentials.php

Watch out for the Judicial Teeth!

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Article in The New York Times by Erik Wemple, 4/2/26

Headline:  “Trump’s Media-Bashing Is Coming Back to Bite Him in Court”

Subhead:  “Judges have cited attacks on the press by the president and his appointees when ruling against the government in at least three court cases.”

“President Trump in April 2025 posted some thoughts on Truth Social about public media, in all caps: ‘Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR & PBS, the radical left “monsters” that so badly hurt our country!’

“This was not a watershed moment. In both his social media posts and his off-the-cuff comments to reporters, Mr. Trump’s broadsides against traditional news outlets have become the tap water of his political rhetoric.

“But they’re now haunting him in court. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/media/trump-media-courts.html

WAPO and Nuclear Option

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Article in FAIR by Peter Castagno. 4/1/26

Headline:  “Washington Post Promotes Nuclear Agenda Tied to Bezos’ Investments”

“The Washington Post has devoted four editorials to supporting the expansion of nuclear energy in the past three months, relying on factual errors and distortions to make the case for the Trump administration’s unprecedented cuts to nuclear safety regulation. The Post‘s owner, Jeff Bezos, is the chair of Amazon, a company dependent on electricity-guzzling data centers that invested more than $1 billion in nuclear energy last year. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://fair.org/home/washington-post-promotes-nuclear-agenda-tied-to-bezos-investments/

Lebanon Invisible to Reporters?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Zahra Hankir, 3/31/26

Headline:  “Who Is Left to Cover Lebanon?”

Subhead:  “A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of Lebanon is being told.”

“. . .Western newsrooms have, thus far, largely framed the story of Lebanon as a sideshow to the war in Iran. Coverage of the bombardment and subsequent invasion has been reactive, relegated to live blogs and breaking news updates; there are few in-depth stories on the political and humanitarian situation. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/feature/who-is-left-to-cover-lebanon.php

Fox News in Sheep’s Clothing?

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Article in Daily Beast by Tom Latcher,. 3/30/26

Headline:  “MTG Brands Fox News ‘Fake News’ as MAGA Civil War Deepens”

Subhead:  “Ann Coulter also compared the network’s Iran war coverage to its false 2020 election claims.”

“Former Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned against MAGA’s favorite TV channel as the Republican civil war over Iran goes nuclear.

“Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has long echoed the American First narrative of the Republican Party’s MAGA wing. But some prominent MAGA supporters are falling out of love with the cable network over its backing for Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

“Trump’s friend-turned-foe MTG accused the network of peddling ‘fake news’ and ‘brainwashing boomers’ over Iran. She wrote on X Sunday, ‘Fox News is now the fake news. Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mtg-brands-fox-news-fake-news-as-maga-iran-civil-war-deepens/

“60 Minutes” Chaos?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 3/31/26

Headline:  “Bari’s ‘60’ Blow Up Plan”

Subhead:  “Earlier this year, Bari Weiss was talked out of making changes to ’60 Minutes’ midseason, Status has learned—but with the summer break approaching, her eyes are now trained squarely on the famed newsmagazine. . .”

“With Bari Weiss now at the helm of CBS News and taking an unusually hands-on approach to ’60 Minutes,’ a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the show’s future. “No one knows what to expect,” one staffer on the show told Status about the mood internally. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes-changes

Journalists Under Threat

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 3/31/26

Headline:  “Opinion | CNN journalists were detained in what Israel called a ‘serious ethical and professional failure’ “

Subhead:  “The Israeli military suspended a battalion and dismissed a soldier within days after the incident, which CNN reported while covering settler violence”

“Late last week, CNN’s Jeremy Diamond reported that he and his crew were detained and assaulted by members of the Israeli military while reporting from the West Bank. (The link above includes video of the incident.)

“Over the weekend, Diamond wrote that CNN was covering a story about Israeli settlers brutally attacking several Palestinians and establishing a new illegal outpost in the village of Tayasir. While there, Diamond reported, Israeli soldiers pointed guns at the CNN team and ordered them to sit. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/cnn-idf-assault-settlers-west-bank/

 

Damaged Public Media Comeback?

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Article in The Guardian from Associated Press, 3/21/26

Headline:  “Federal judge blocks Trump order to end funding for NPR and PBS”

Subhead:  “Citing the first amendment, judge says president’s executive order is unlawful and unenforceable”

“Citing the first amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.

“The operational impact of US district judge Randolph Moss’s decision was not immediately clear – both because it will probably be appealed and because too much damage to the public-broadcasting system has already been done, both by the president and Congress.

“Moss ruled that Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for NPR and PBS is unlawful and unenforceable. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/judge-blocks-trump-npr-pbs-funding-cut

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Article in New York Times by Benjam,in Mullin, 3/31/26

Headline:  “Trump’s Executive Order on NPR and PBS Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules”

Subhead:  “The ruling will have minimal effect on the federal money going to public media because Congress voted to claw back funding. But it could have implications for any future funding.”

Read the article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/business/media/trump-npr-pbs-executive-order-ruling.html

Celebrating Killing the Free Press?

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Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 3/30/26

Headline:  “Opinion | The FCC chair is openly cheering the weakening of the press”

Subhead:  “In a speech, he ticked through defunded outlets, ousted journalists and looming ownership changes — then said the president is ‘winning’ “

“President Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he detests the press, and for the past 10 years has waged a full-scale assault on it.

“He has used fascist tactics, such as calling the media ‘fake news’ and the ‘enemy of the people.’ His attacks include lawsuits, bans and threats. My colleague, Angela Fu, continues to document that assault in Poynter’s Press Freedom Watch — a list that is growing alarmingly longer by the day. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/brendan-carr-mission-accomplished-press-war/

Revenge on the Media?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Jem Bartholomew, 3/30/26

Headline:  “Was the FBI Raid on a Washington Post Reporter’s Home an Act of Retribution?”

Subhead: “Investigators ‘assisted’ Hannah Natanson in applying her right index finger to a Post-owned MacBook Pro, accessing all its data.”

“. . .As [KAsh Patel] said on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast in 2023, ‘We’re gonna come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re gonna come after you—whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out—but yeah, we’re putting you all on notice’. . .”

“At 6:05am on January 14, the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter who had spent much of Trump’s first year back in office covering the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as it took a hatchet to the civil service. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/was-the-fbi-raid-on-a-washington-post-reporters-home-an-act-of-retribution.php