The Nationwide Transportation Security Board will solely replace the press concerning the airplane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over electronic mail, as reported earlier by The Desk. The company announced on Saturday that it’s going to use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”information conferences or different investigative data.“
The NTSB later said, “Reporters ought to electronic mail mediarelations@ntsb.gov for all different inquiries,” claiming that it was meant to “higher handle the quantity of” emails concerning the two incidents n. “The NTSB media relations staff 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 electronic 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 Occasions, NPR, and Politico, from their devoted workstations within the Pentagon, in accordance with a report from NBC. As a substitute, the DoD will impose an “annual media rotation program” that can change the retailers with conservative-leaning ones, like One America Information Community, the New York Submit, and Breitbart. It additionally contains HuffPost although it doesn’t have a Pentagon correspondent, NBC notes.