Fox News Rebukes Ex-Host Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Press Access Policy

 https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-pentagon-press-access-fox-news-10878748

Fox News has joined other major media outlets in rejecting and criticizing a new Pentagon press access policy put forward by President Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who previously worked as a contributor and co-host at Fox News.

In the statement shared with Newsweek by Fox News, the group of media outlets said: "Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press.”

Fellow conservative media outlets Newsmax and The Washington Times announced on Monday that they would not sign the new policy put forward by the Trump administration.