The major broadcast networks, along with Fox News and CNN , issued a joint statement opposing the Pentagon ‘s new restrictions on press access to the complex, concluding that it is “without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections.”

The statement, from NBC News , CBS News and ABC News along with the cable networks, said, “Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections. We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free an

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