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Purged From the Pentagon

The Trump administration is making it abundantly clear that it views the press as an adversary to be undermined at every opportunity.

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Oliver Darcy
February 07, 2025

Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

On Wednesday, bureau chiefs and executives from the nation's top newsrooms convened for a meeting with Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot. The meeting, which I'm told NBC News boss Rebecca Blumenstein even traveled to Washington for, was held so that newsrooms could lodge a formal complaint against the Pete Hegseth-led Pentagon for booting a handful of outlets from their dedicated workspaces the week before.

Some of the outlets which were impacted protested with Ullyot that…

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