NPR’s Sources and Methods (national security podcast) has an episode on this as well! Tom Bowman (author of this article) is the episode’s main guest https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5552728/without-a-press-corps-who-holds-the-pentagon-to-account (transcript accessible on that episode page)

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Damn, so much for freedom of the press

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