Trump “shoots” from the Pentagon four news giants – Among them the New York Times, Politico and NBC

They empty their offices, National Public Radio, NBC News and Politico in the Pentagon after yesterday’s (31.01.2020) decision by his government. In a move that has no precedent, the government of American President Donald Trump announced that it removes four news organizations, including the New York Times, the offices that have been granted them to the Pentagon, saying he wants to make room for others. According to the memorandum entitled “New Annual Media Exchange Program”, in addition to the New York Times, the news organizations National Public Radio, NBC News (owned by Comcast Corp) and Politico must also evacuate their offices by February 14 . In their place, the offices will take New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart News Network and HuffPost News. Each year, from an organization of print, Internet, television and radio media will alternate in the Pentagon “to allow everyone to have the only opportunity to report” through the Pentagon, it refers to the memorandum. CORVERSE “We are disappointed with the decision to deprive us of a broadcast booth in the Pentagon that we have been using for many decades,” said an email representative of NBC News. The NPR expressed concern over the decision and called on the defence ministry to extend the office spaces available so that all news organizations, covering the Pentagon, have equal access. The New York Times and Politico did not immediately respond to a request to comment outside work hours. More than 25 news organizations broadcast from the Pentagon. The Pentagon Press Association, which represents the journalists covering the defence ministry, expressed its “great concern about this unprecedented defence ministry move to distinguish large professional media.” The press secretary said the White House has flooded with more than 10,000 requests for the new position of the “new media” in the White House’s narrow briefing room. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Ullott said in a note to the Pentagon press association that the change in the Ministry of Defence headquarters would “enlarge access to the restricted Correspondents’ space to media that did not previously have the privilege and journalistic value of work from a physical office space in the Pentagon.” However, one of the recently favored media, HuffPost, former Huffington Post, has no Pentagon correspondent. “If the Trump government and Minister Hegseth are interested in tougher coverage of defence ministry management than HuffPost, we are ready to deliver it,” a agency spokesman told CNN. At her first press conference this week, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump’s government “opened the information room to new media voices”. The first people he called were Mike Allen of Axios — a long-standing political journalist at a site considered mainstream — and Matt Boyle of Breitbart.