Pentagon Changes Media Offices

The Trump administration is making moves so fast, it’s almost hard to keep up. But one thing is clear—this is not business as usual.

One of the biggest shake-ups has been happening in the media landscape, where Trump’s team is upending the old order in a way that has the usual suspects in a full-blown meltdown. First, the White House made waves by creating a new media seat at press briefings, giving alternative outlets a chance to ask real questions instead of the pre-approved talking points we’re used to seeing from the legacy press. But if that wasn’t enough to rattle the establishment, the Pentagon just delivered an even stronger message: media favoritism is over.

The Defense Department informed its resident press corps that NBC, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico—the longtime darlings of the D.C. press scene—would have to rotate out of the Pentagon office space they’ve held for years. In their place? The New York Post, Breitbart, One America News (OANN), and The Huffington Post. Yes, you read that right. For the first time, conservative and alternative media outlets are getting a fair shake in one of the most exclusive press spaces in the country.

The Pentagon’s letter made the reasoning clear: “In order 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 in the Pentagon.” The new system starts February 14, 2025, and from now on, these spaces will rotate annually across different media formats—print, TV, radio, and online news.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. NBC, the Times, NPR, and Politico aren’t being banned from covering the Pentagon. They’re not losing their press credentials. They’ll still be able to report on briefings and events just like everyone else. What’s changing is that they will no longer enjoy permanent access to exclusive office space—something that, for years, was an unspoken perk of being aligned with the Washington establishment.

The reaction from the left? Total meltdown.

Suddenly, giving more media outlets access is a “media purge.” Suddenly, shifting office assignments is “1933” (because, of course, everything they don’t like is 1933). You would think that Trump had just shut down newspapers and seized printing presses instead of simply making room for more voices in the Pentagon press corps.

Their hysteria is laughable. Where is all that talk about “diversity” now? What happened to “representation” and “inclusion”? The very same media outlets that constantly preach about the importance of marginalized voices being heard are suddenly furious that their monopoly on press access is being broken. The hypocrisy could not be more obvious.

The reality is simple: this is how a free press should work. No single group of outlets—especially ones with a well-documented political bias—should have exclusive, unchallenged access to government institutions. If the mainstream media is as strong and independent as it claims to be, it should have no problem competing on an even playing field.

But that’s the problem, isn’t it? For years, the old media has relied on access, not accountability. They’ve had a cushy arrangement where they get first dibs on everything while independent and conservative media were treated as outsiders. Now, Trump’s administration is saying enough. If we’re going to have press offices in the Pentagon at all, they should be open to everyone, not just the usual elite club.

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