The Nationwide Transportation Security Board will solely replace the press concerning the airplane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over e-mail, as reported earlier by The Desk. The company announced on Saturday that it’ll use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”information conferences or different investigative data.“
The NTSB later said, “Reporters ought to e-mail mediarelations@ntsb.gov for all different inquiries,” claiming that it was meant to “higher handle the amount of” emails concerning the two incidents n. “The NTSB media relations crew has all the time used Twitter/X to tell the media and public on the time and site of media briefings. We can not reply to each e-mail asking for the small print 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 also be eradicating main retailers, like NBC Information, The New York Instances, NPR, and Politico, from their devoted workstations within the Pentagon, in keeping with 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 Publish, and Breitbart. It additionally consists of HuffPost despite the fact that it doesn’t have a Pentagon correspondent, NBC notes.