Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.
Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.
But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.
To be fair, if I were planning to acquire and then spill all kinds of unauthorised state secrets that it was in the public interest to have in the public eye, I would sign that in an instant just to get the security clearance needed to get my grubby mitts on them.
I suspect that will not be the motivation the brown-nosers have for signing though.
@CrypticMirror (though there might be some fine print deep in the documents about waiving your rights to a fair trial [and to due process] and pre-agreed fine of 200 mio bucks [with same policy regarding defaults as student loans] and death by hanging, drawing and quartering in cases of document leak*)
(**: unless by a Trump's apointee in a Signal group)
(Though, to be fair, they'll punish journalists the same way even if they didn't sign)
1.
"Under the policy, the #Pentagon may revoke press passes for anyone it deems a security threat"
2.
"Possessing confidential or unauthorized information, under the new rules, would be grounds for a journalist’s Press Pass to be revoked"
That's 2 things that are unnecessary, imo.
A reporter can be canned for any (fake) reason and no reporter will publicly ask a question to #Trump on any hot topic or "confidential" topic anyway
🤪 "I'm going TELL THEM about you"
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Fascism is what you call it…
Does that mean journalists will not be allowed in the bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago?
Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.
Any mention of Epstein Trump relationship will of course be unauthorized.
Alligator Alcatraz and unmarked mass graves are waiting for those who do not bow to the Orange King
Exposing Watergate would presumably have been impossible under such an agreement?
@FediThing @dangillmor
'Natch.
And this "document", once signed, makes "embedded" reporters look like Woodward and Berstein.
Remember "embedded" reporters...? That was the true beginning of the end of journalism.
9-11 hastened the demise. There's been precious little REAL journalism since 2001.
@dangillmor I guess this would crumble if any press org challenged under 1st amendment.
Not expecting the tyrant loving press core to challenge
@dangillmor
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed, everything else is Public Relations.” – (Attributed to) George Orwell
So basically Trump has just completely outlawed journalism.
@dangillmor
By now, it should be clear to everyone that democracy in the US has come to an end.
And due to extreme divisions in society, there will be even less potential for cohesion.
Sad.
Factual information will be unauthorized. See EPA.
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