Defense Department To Boot NBC News, New York Times And Other Media From Workspaces As Part Of New Rotation; Trump-Friendly Outlets To Get Spots

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Major press organizations are expressing concern after the Defense Department announced changes that mean that NBC News, The New York Times, Politico and National Public Radio will no longer have dedicated workspaces at the Pentagon.

Instead, according to a memo sent to news organizations, there will be a media rotation program, with new outlets taking the spot of a legacy TV, print, radio and online news site.

Those getting space include outlets with a long history of favorable coverage of Donald Trump — One America News Network and Breitbart News Network, as well as the New York Post, which leans right.

The other outlet, HuffPost, leans left. John Ullyot, a Pentagon spokesperson, wrote in a letter to news outlets that the changes are part of an effort 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” at the Defense Department.