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Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast

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News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper

It was too restrictive for Murdoch’s Trump-friendly Fox News but The Australian newspaper broke ranks this week and signed on to the Pentagon’s prohibitive new press policy.

But after we asked The Australian’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Gunn, why her masthead’s correspondent agreed to the rules imposed by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, when they had been roundly rejected by Fox News, the publication backflipped.

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