Hegseth's Pentagon replaces four onsite media offices

[RobDownSouth]

New Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has wasted no time installing four "Trump friendly" media outlets in the small (four!) permanent media offices at the Pentagon

Out:
Print Media: New York Times
TV: NBC News
Radio: National Public Radio
Online News: Politico.com

In:
Print Media: New York Post
TV: OAN News
Radio: Breitbart News
Online News: Huffingtonpost.com

 

[Noitall]

good

 

[ll74]

good

Racist and misogynistic man wants to discuss important policy decisions.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Diversity, equity and inclusion comes to the Pentagon press corps. And all this time we thought this administration was launching a war on DEI!

 

[Politruk]

Breitbart:

Breitbart.com is a far-right news site which operates out of the U.S., London, and Jerusalem, and Conservapedia's main source of information nowadays. Well, we say news; it's more like the unwanted love child of Fox News and /pol/ who serves as an American Pravda for Donald Trump and others like him. "Screaming hateful absurdities" might be more appropriate. It was founded by Andrew Breitbart, whose death launched a bunch of idiot conspiracy theories among people who lost the ability to debate coherently a long time ago. Breitbart is basically a Nazi version of BuzzFeed.

It is inadvisable to use Breitbart as a source. Wikipedia editors have agreed to not allow Breitbart to be used as citations for facts,[2]In September 2018, Wikipedia banned the use of Breitbart as a source, as much of its news coverage was found to be unreliable, misleading and false.[3] similar to how Daily Mail was blacklisted, though it does help when discussing how horrifying Stephen "Lenin" Bannon is.[4][note 1] It's called Breitbart because the name Bannon would be too telling: Steve is basically David Duke with a little more smarts, a Goldman guy with Seinfeld money who bought the outlet to push his agenda. There is no doubt that he will be successful — in destroying the Republican Party.


New York Post:

The New York Post (or the New York comPost) is an American daily tabloid newspaper that has operated continuously since its founding by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.[1] It is the oldest continuously-published daily in the US,[2] and the 13th oldest newspaper in the country. Throughout its history, the Post has switched political leanings several times; for much of the 20th century, it was a liberal, actively pro-labor paper. Then, in 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the paper and turned it into New York City's voice of wingnut yellow journalism. (Similarly, his British paper The Sun was originally a left-wing paper which evolved out of the trade union-affiliated Daily Herald.) It is a favorite for anti-libertarian big government conservatives of the North who support gun control for black people.

Today, the paper is known for its racy front pages, which include screaming headlines[3] and juxtapositions that would be considered inappropriate in other papers.[note 1]


OANN:

One America News Network, also abbreviated as OANN or OAN News,[note 1] is a far-right, pro-Trump, ultraconservative propaganda media outlet founded by Robert Herring Sr., the founder and owner of American Wealth Entertainment.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png

The idea behind OANN came directly from AT&T executives who wanted a second right-wing network to compete with Fox News.[3] Ninety percent of OANN's revenue stream comes from AT&T-owned television platforms, especially DirecTV.[3] OANN's lawyer, Patrick Nellies, stated in court, "If Herring Networks, for instance, was to lose or not be renewed on DirecTV, the company would go out of business tomorrow."[3]

OANN is like Fox News but more unhinged: on-air personalities have flirted with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and the network even used QAnon emojis in one of their promotions.[4][5] Conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, best known for pushing Pizzagate, was a reporter at OANN from 2018 to 2021.[6] In July 2019, one of OANN's reporters, Kristian Rouz, was reported to be simultaneously working for the Russian state propaganda outlet Sputnik.[7] They proudly proclaim that they know the difference between an apple and a banana.[8]

OANN was launched on July 4, 2013 and "provides an independent source of credible national and international news around the clock." They are a redundantly self-proclaimed "dependable and reliable source of credible news reporting."[9] OANN says that it delivers "just the facts, empowering you to form your own beliefs" and has been praised for their reporting on current events.[10] However, they fail with political news, promoting extreme conservative causes and engaging in constant liberal and left-wing smearing and bashing to draw a more far-right conservative audience.