Pentagon bans press photographers over ‘unflattering’ photos of Hegseth: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-press-photographers-hegseth-photo-b2936569.html

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Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 174 pts · 157d (4 replies)
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radix@lemmy.world · 111 pts · 157d (1 reply)

"It's been 0 days since this administration violated someone's rights."

The "0" is just written in ink. It has not changed, and never will.

eddie@feddit.online · 18 pts · 157d

more like written in blood

Soulphite@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 157d (1 reply)

They know, and they don't care and furthermore they ask you the people "what are you gonna do about it?"

This regime is just WAITING for citizens to step up. They are itching to initiate martial law and the insurrection act now more than ever.

TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 157d

Trump is a deep cover leftist. He's trying to get people and the system as a whole to stand up and tighten the system and show why right wing policies and authoritarian policies are bad. But no one is stepping up!

I really want to start planting this idea in conservative spaces.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 157d (1 reply)

This is a lot more serious than the headline...

Photographs from the briefings are immediately released online for the public and press to use. If that hurts the business model for certain news outlets, then they should consider applying for a Pentagon press credential,” Wilson wrote.

Last year, the Pentagon implemented a new rule for media that required credentialed outlets to agree to a new policy that states reporters cannot gather or publish information from the Defense Department that is not explicitly authorized.

That includes declassified information or off-the-record conversations, no matter where the information was obtained.

Many mainstream media outlets refused to sign the agreement, finding the new rules oppressive. As a result, major broadcasters such as Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News; legacy newspapers such as the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal; and other outlets lost their Pentagon press credentials.

inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 157d

And yet they'll keep shouting Free Speech unironically.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 86 pts · 157d (7 replies)

The problem with taking good photos of Pete Hegseth is that, no matter what, it's still a photo of Pete Hegseth.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 157d (3 replies)

crusa187@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 157d (2 replies)

Is this big wet?

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 9 pts · 157d (1 reply)

Is he wearing a bra?

200ok@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d

I'm guessing it's a tattoo. A tattoo of a bra

arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 157d (2 replies)

This was my first thought lol. Like, there are flattering photos of Hegseth? At best he looks smarmy.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 8 pts · 157d (1 reply)

Yeah, his personality comes through.

eddie@feddit.online · 5 pts · 157d

hate when that happens

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 66 pts · 157d (3 replies)

Now they'll have no choice but to reuse all the unflattering photos they already took.

5D chess...

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 31 pts · 157d (2 replies)
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 157d

Yes. Streisand the fuck out of this. Unflattering photos in the press is part of being a public servant douchebag.

jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 157d

featuring the French words “Deus Vult”

sundray@lemmus.org · 45 pts · 157d (1 reply)

Sober up, Pete. Catch a shower and maybe change the oil in your hair.

jdr@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 157d

kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 157d (1 reply)

What a collosal pussy. All armed service members should be absolutely ashamed to be following such a shallow, childish, vain, poor excuse of a man. You would sacrifice your life on the whims of this douchebag?

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 157d

I feel ashamed about signing up 20 years ago, and every one of us who’ve done so should be sighting in rifle sights again.

Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 157d

The vanity fair photos are still the best worst photos of the current admin.

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 157d

Next up, Hegseth's mother makes a scene and calls the principal because some mean journalist did their job

hudhf@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 157d (4 replies)

Is there a bigger cunt?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 157d

There is always a bigger cunt. They invented the male camel toe.

CompostMaterial@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 157d (2 replies)

That is not a question you should ask with this administration, because the answer is always yes.

huppakee@piefed.social · 11 pts · 157d

Cunts all the way down.

Triumph@fedia.io · 9 pts · 157d

This is referred to as Escher's Cunt.

alpha1beta@piefed.social · 16 pts · 157d (1 reply)

he should be thrilled they took pictures of his, standing, clothed and not face first in a puddle of his own piss, spilled booze and vomit.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d

It probably is just a matter of time before he gets the Jenna Bush treatment.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 156d

Is this the "warrior ethos"? Lmao

Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 156d

Easy.

Just use the existing pictures he hates from now on and take no more.

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 156d

This is what peak male performance looks like

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 156d
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DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 157d

You can put lipstick on a pig. However, in the end it's still lipstick.

Eddbopkins@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 156d

He's an evil Nazi looking pos. That murders children with rockets.

CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d

What a pussy

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d

When preteens run a nation with the most powerful military on the planet.

Thanks conservatives. You really do vote for people you identify with.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 9 pts · 156d

someone's over compensating again

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 156d

Sounds kind of woke

devolution@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 157d

What a snowflake pussy.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 157d

You heard the secretary, plaster unflattering photos of him all around meatspace

zilouge@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 156d

Such a snowflake

xerxes@piefed.social · 4 pts · 157d

Nice, so Pete gonna put a bag on his head or what?

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d

What a chode

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d

he's just mad they aren't taking photos of his white supremacist tattoos

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 157d

Oh wonderful, that means we will never see photos of him again!

deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d

Bring on the artists renditions!!

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d

Streisand that REMF.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 157d

AHAHAHAHA

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d

“I’m going to need a volunteer from the audience!”