Hi Neighbor,
There’s a debate these days over the public’s right to know.
That means, of course, your right to know.
Our government doesn’t seem to want you to know what it deems you shouldn’t know. Sort of a “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” philosophy.
Over at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared that you should only know what he wants you to know about the military. So he demanded that press people sign a document limiting their reporting to only the news the Defense Department hands out.
If reporters refused to sign? Their press credentials were revoked, and they were kicked out of the Pentagon building. Just one signed – One America News Network, which happens to be a fan of Donald Trump. Even Fox and Newsmax.
Then there’s the news coming out of the Oval