The Nationwide Transportation Security Board will solely replace the press in regards to the airplane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over e mail, as reported earlier by The Desk. The company introduced on Saturday that it’ll use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”information conferences or different investigative info.“
The NTSB later mentioned, “Reporters ought to e mail mediarelations@ntsb.gov for all different inquiries,” claiming that it was meant to “higher handle the quantity of” emails in regards to the two incidents n. “The NTSB media relations group has all the time used Twitter/X to tell the media and public on the time and placement of media briefings. We can’t reply to each e mail asking for the main points of media briefings,” the NTSB mentioned, with out explaining the method behind the choice or why an company would rely solely on one privately owned social media platform.
On the identical time, the US Division of Protection can be eradicating main retailers, like NBC Information, The New York Instances, NPR, and Politico, from their devoted workstations within the Pentagon, based on a report from NBC. As a substitute, the DoD will impose an “annual media rotation program” that may change the retailers with conservative-leaning ones, like One America Information Community, the New York Put up, and Breitbart. It additionally consists of HuffPost although it doesn’t have a Pentagon correspondent, NBC notes.