The Defense Department on Wednesday announced the "next generation" of the Pentagon press corps, including mostly right-wing outlets, following the mass exodus of legacy outlets from the building who refused to sign the department’s restrictive new press policy.

More than 60 journalists, “representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists,” have signed the Pentagon’s media access policy and will join 26 journalists from 18 outlets who already had building access and agreed to the new rules, according to chief spokesperson Sean Parnell.

In a statement to X, Parnell used the announcement to denigrate the outlets that refused to sign to keep their access badges as “self-righteous media who chose to self-deport from the Pentagon.”

He claimed the new batch of media outlets — the majority of........

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