Stella's Place

More, from a favorite X contributor, Cynical Publius.

Please take the time to read this lengthy post, it’s important.

There is SO MUCH lying and distortion on this matter, we need to cut through the garbage.

So I’m here for it.

Go ahead and Google this phrase (you’ll see it everywhere in sooooo many legacy media reports):

“. . . information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified.”

Google it with quotes around it so you get that EXACT phrase. See how much it shows up, VERBATIM, with those EXACT WORDS in that EXACT ORDER in so, so, so many media reports?

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You have probably heard by now about all of the mainstream media outlets who have refused to sign the Media Access Guidelines requested by the Department of War in order to maintain their credentials.

I have wondered what I am missing. Is there something that truly does impinge upon the Freedom of the Press guaranteed in the First Amendment to our Constitution?

Post after post appears on X condemning the Secretary of the DOW, Pete Hegseth. This afternoon I ran across this post by the Federalist’s CEO Sean Davis, and its Editor-In-Chief, Mollie Hemingway. It lays out very clearly what is at issue. Apparently there IS another side to the story. Here is the text:

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