In the wake of reporting about potential war crimes at sea, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

lobbed shots at the messenger.

You sit in your air-conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you plant

fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Michael Onger.

The bombshell story came out just as a brand new

Pentagon press score showed up for work. They're pumped. Tim Poole said, you know, we're not

investigative reporters, so just essentially signaling right from the start that they didn't

intend to do investigative journalism. Plus, a new documentary about Seymour Hirsch, who's lurking in the Pentagon

hallways during the Vietnam War, led to the scoop of a lifetime.

Instead of going to lunch with my colleagues, I would go find young officers.

Eventually, Army guys would start saying, well, you know, it's murder incorporated there.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Ladstone is out this week.

I'm Michael O'Ncher.

On Thursday morning, the New York Times announced that it's suing the Pentagon.

The lawsuit names the Defense Department, Secretary Pete Hagseth,

and Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell as the defendants.

The lawsuit seeks to repeal the new press policy,

with the New York Times calling it a violation of free press's right to seek information

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