Democrats pressure Pentagon over new media restrictions

Earlier this year, the Department of Defense announced that it would be taking greater editorial control over the longrunning military news organization, which has previously operated with editorial latitude. In a memo in March, the Pentagon said the publication must publish content consistent with "good order and discipline," a legalistic military phrase. The new rules limited syndication of external stories and content, and instructed the newspaper's ombudsman to send information intended for Congress to the Department of Defense first.

A Pentagon spokesperson at the time said the paper would retain its editorial independence, but the changes would modernize its practices and "refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale.”

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