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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Journalists turn in access badges, exit the Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Description: Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation's leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information—classified or otherwise—that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.
Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. dea...