Many American and international media, including the newspaper New York Timesthe television network Fox Newsthe news agency Associated Press and French agency They refused Tuesday to sign a letter from the US Department of Defense, which imposes restrictive measures for the press, with the risk of losing their credentials.

This document is in particular that accredited journalists in the Pentagon cannot even request any information without explicit and written approval of the Ministry.

The new arrangements ‘They are silenced by employees in the Pentagon’ and threaten retaliation against journalists who are investigating information ‘Without approval in advance for the publication’, noted The Association of Editors of the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon Press Association, PPA) in its announcement.

The new restrictions provided for in the document “It is contrary to the foundations of the principles of journalism” and “undermine rights guaranteed by the first amendment of the US Constitution”which adopted the protection of Eleftherotypia, stressed in his own announcement yesterday AFP.

They put unnecessary obstacles “In the journalistic work” and “they are confusing the responsibilities of the Pentagon workers and those of journalists who cover the news,” he added.

In their joint announcement published via social networking sites, US television networks ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News They reported that they join their voice with ‘Practically everything else’ media and refuse to accept new Pentagon regulationswhere “They limit the ability of journalists to continue informing the nation and the world of important national security issues.”

“We will continue to cover the US Army (…) defending the principles of free and independent type”they added.

The newspaper Washington Postthe news agency Reuters and even conservative media, such as the network Newsmax, They also refused to sign the document.

New measures are enrolled in a broader attack, from returning to Republican power Donald Trumprestricting journalists’ access to the Pentagon – the largest employer in the US, with an annual budget approaching one trillion dollars on an annual basis.

In recent months, the Ministry of Defense – recently renamed the Trump Ministry of War – demanded that the offices he had available to his premises to eight media, especially in the newspapers. New York Times, Washington Post and in CNN. At the same time, press updates have been drastically reduced: Their number is one -digit since the beginning of the year, compared to at least two per week on average on the days of democratic former president Joe Biden.

The ministry has decided also limit journalists’ movements within its premises and requires them to be accompanied by military personnel within them, except for specific, clearly certain areas.

In April the Pitt HegshethMinister of Defense, former presenter of Fox Newsinvolved in leakage of military planswhen a journalist was added to a group to a group he had created on the Signal Safe Message Exchange platform.

The US press said he was discussing rated plans for blows in Yemen in another group in Signal with members of about ten persons in his personal and professional environment. The use of the Signal platform by the Minister is internal research In the Pentagon.

In various media that expressed their opposition to the Pentagon’s document, the Minister of Defense Hegsheth replied by posting Emoji with a hand that makes farewell. (👋)