You sit in your air-conditioned offices, they're up on Capitol Hill, and you nitpick, and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post.

At a time of war and instability, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth loves to lob shots at the Messenger.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Loinger.

Just at the moment when we need the Pentagon Press Corps most, they've been replaced with

right-wing influencers.

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 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 Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Michael Loanger.

Late last Friday, the New York Times scored a win in its lawsuit against the Pentagon.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's restrictive Pentagon press access policy,

which threatened journalists with being branded security risks if they seek information not authorized for public release.

The Times had argued that the policy, which they

claimed violated the First and Fifth Amendments, allowed the Defense Department to freeze out

reporters or outlets whose coverage it didn't like. The government disputed that characterization,

calling the policy necessary for national security. Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon plans to appeal the ruling.

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