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Paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20251019175231/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/media/epoch-times-pentagon-press-rules.html

BoingBoing on Wednesday: Mainstream media quit Pentagon rather than sign pledge

Update: By end of day, a few more signed up; this post originally identified only one, OANN. The new Pentagon press corps appears to be The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OANN, a Turkish newspaper and a blogger from Korea.

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

No one working for fascist publications can in any true sense call themselves a reporter.

[–] shaiatan@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Propaganda rag signs propaganda agreement. Not surprising.

[–] spider@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

~~Epoch~~ Eunuch Times

fixed that for you

[–] MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The Epoch times is the mouth piece of the cult Falong Gong or Faluna Dafa. Hence why they are so anti china.