4 media organizations 'rotated' out of Pentagon press corps offices

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, successful an unprecedented move, announced precocious Friday it would region 4 media organizations including The New York Times from their dedicated bureau spaces successful the Pentagon, citing a tendency to marque country for others.

The memo connected a "New Annual Media Rotation Program" said it would besides region National Public Radio, NBC News and Politico, which indispensable vacate their spaces by February 14. In their place, it would springiness dedicated bureau abstraction to the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost News.

Each twelvemonth going forward, 1 outlet from print, online, tv and vigor volition rotate retired of the Pentagon "to let a caller outlet from the aforesaid mean that has not had the unsocial accidental to study arsenic a nonmigratory subordinate of the Pentagon Press Corps," the memo said.

"We're disappointed by the determination to contradict america entree to a broadcasting booth astatine the Pentagon that we've utilized for galore decades," an NBC News spokesperson said by email. "Despite the important obstacles this presents to our quality to stitchery and study quality successful the nationalist national interest, we volition proceed to study with the aforesaid integrity and rigor NBC News ever has."

The New York Times said it remained committed to covering the Pentagon "fully and fairly" contempt the move.

"Steps designed to impede entree are intelligibly not successful the nationalist interest," The Times said successful a statement.

NPR called connected the Defense Department to grow bureau abstraction disposable truthful each media outlets covering the Pentagon person adjacent access.

"This determination interferes with the quality of millions of Americans to straight perceive from Pentagon leadership, and with NPR's nationalist involvement ngo to service Americans who crook to our web of section nationalist media stations successful each 50 states," it said.

Politico did not instantly respond to a petition for remark extracurricular regular concern hours.

More than 2 twelve quality organizations run retired of the Pentagon, including Reuters, reporting connected the regular activities of the U.S. military.

"To beryllium clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned them by the caput (of defense) volition stay afloat members of the Pentagon Press Corps," said John Ullyot, acting adjunct to the caput of defence for nationalist affairs.

"The lone alteration volition beryllium giving up their carnal workspaces successful the gathering to let caller outlets to person their crook to go nonmigratory members of the Pentagon Press Corps."

The Pentagon Press Association, which represents journalists who screen the Defense Department, said it was "greatly troubled by this unprecedented determination by DOD to azygous retired highly nonrecreational media."

Reuters analogous Phil Stewart is simply a subordinate of the association's four-member committee of directors.