...f you read The New York Times, you might think that Iran is winning”. Trying to Control the Media Narrative with a Stick The Pentagon, in coordination with Trump, issued new media communication rules in the second half of 2025, prohibiting the publication of news without verification by the Pentagon and depriving journalists of the right to freely move around the ministry. Most of the major publications did not sign up to the rules, and they were deprived of passes and access. This applies...
... to both local media and a number of international news agencies. Having lost the right to communicate with the generals, the media did not lose the right to reflect the American version of events. However, now exclusives are either leaks or their own investigations, because the communication channel has stopped working in both directions. In reality, the coverage of the military campaign, which affected the interests of dozens of countries due to energy and economic problems, as well as p...
...ossible refugees and terrorist attacks, has not become anti-American. However, many of the traditional tools for dominating the pro-American position have disappeared. The press and Washington are no longer working together. The fact that Trump is deeply and sincerely convinced that he is right does not negate other constants. If the United States had won totally, no amount of OSINT and the interpretation of individual media outlets would have made this victory less obvious. And if this is...
... not the case, the White House will have to try harder if it decides to appoint itself the winner of the war, so that both inside the country and in the partner countries believe in it. The press is still a poor helper for him in this. -- Some material used from /en.news-front.su/