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Hegseth’s media loyalty oath ‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday.‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

Amid a slew of mainstream news publications rejecting the Pentagon’s prohibitive new press restrictions ahead of a Tuesday signing deadline, right-wing cable channel Newsmax surprisingly declared that it would also refuse to sign the new agreement, calling the policy “unnecessary and onerous.”

In fact, amid the continued backlash against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new rules – which the Pentagon Press Association called an “unprecedented message of intimidation” – only one media organization has agreed to sign the letter: Trump-boosting channel One America News https://archive.ph/xtdUk https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/newsmax-rejects-pentagon-press-rules-b2844673.html