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EditorandPublisher.com is reporting that starting Feb. 14, traditional media outlets such as the New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio (NPR) and POLITICO will no longer occupy their long-time offices at the Pentagon.
Instead, that space will be given to such right-of-centre outlets as the New York Post, One America News Network — the radio arm of the Breitbart News Network — and the Huffington Post.
The space itself is in the Correspondents’ Corridor, a set of offices loaned to print, TV and radio outlets to give them greater access to the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. military, and its officials.
Department of Defense spokesperson John Ullyot said on Friday in a memo that the move was designed to “broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space within the Pentagon.”
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Some of the outgoing news outlets have raised the hackles of conservative politicians while the four incoming outlets have supported Trump and his allies.
“We’re disappointed by the decision to deny us access to a broadcasting booth at the Pentagon that we’ve used for many decades,” an NBC spokesperson said in a statement.
“Despite the significant obstacles this presents to our ability to gather and report news in the national public interest, we will continue to report with the same integrity and rigor NBC News always has.”
In a statement, NPR said the eviction “interferes with the ability of millions of Americans to directly hear from Pentagon leadership, and with NPR’s public interest mission to serve Americans who turn to our network of local public media stations in all 50 states.”