Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

Weiss faced “mass confusion” at the network this week as staffers received conflicting orders on whether to respond to her memo, according to Variety.

Networks and publications of all ideologies banded together to oppose the Pentagon's attempts to control the media narrative

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Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power

Days earlier, Trump lavished praise on Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, who now control CBS through their $8.4B Paramount Skydance merger.

President Trump said Sunday that he thinks CBS has “great potential” after a summer merger between CBS parent company Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance placed the son of a close Trump ally at the helm of the media corporation.

A federal judge in Florida has thrown out President Trump's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, citing its excessive length, but gave his attorneys a chance to refile.