Last month, the Department of Defense issued a new policy restricting the movement and actions of reporters assigned to cover the Pentagon to an immediate uproar from news outlets of all mediums and leanings. While the agency later issued a revised memo after extensive negotiations with media organizations, dozens of outlets went on to publicly reject the restrictions, refusing to sign off on the changes and potentially putting their coveted hard passes at risk. But ahead of the Tuesday deadline, all of the major news networks added their names to the growing list, including the former employer of Defense secretary Pete Hegseth .

In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Media, and NBC News wrote that they were refusing to sign on to the Pentagon’s ne

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