If a restaurant lost more than 80% of its employees while trying to serve an ever-growing number of potential customers, no one would wonder why quality plummeted. But when it comes to the news media, few see the problem so clearly. Surveys by the Reuters Institute and the Gallup/Knight Foundation found bias was the leading […]
The Pentagon’s rewritten credentialing policy hasn’t ended the standoff with journalists.
Press advocates say the revised rules still chill newsgathering and could further isolate reporters, even as officials insist the changes merely clarify security procedures.
Two journalists with longstanding Pentagon access have become the first known reporters to publicly reject the Department of War’s new media pledge, telling me they will not sign it, a significant escalation in response to a policy that, until now, had been widely criticized but not openly defied. An editor at a D.C.-based trade publication, […]