Marty Baron: The Reporting Has Been ‘Quite Aggressive, Quite Energetic, as It Should Be’ Despite Pentagon Press Restrictions
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BARON: "Well, I think he‘D like to do that. But of course he‘s not going to achieve that goal. There‘s no way he‘s going to. I mean, look, look what happened at the Pentagon. the Pentagon ousted all the legitimate reporters, uh, because they wouldn‘t sign a pledge that they wouldn‘t report on or even ask questions about subjects that weren‘t officially part of a press release. They weren‘t officially released by the Pentagon. Uh, has that changed the reporting on on the Pentagon, on the war in Iran? Uh, it has not. In fact, the reporting has been quite, uh, quite aggressive, quite energetic as it should be. This country goes to war. Uh, there have been all sorts of reports that have talked, you know, in quite detail about how we how we got into this quagmire in Iran. So if Trump thinks he‘s going to change some behavior on the"