Gen. Jack Keane reacts to Pentagon's new press access policy

Fox News senior strategic analyst and a retired Gen Jack Keane offered his reaction to the Trump administration's new press access plan for the Pentagon during his appearance on Special Statement Tuesday It doesn't seem like the whole story is being notified to our viewers here Keane notified Fox News' Bret Baier What they're really doing they want to spoon-feed information to the journalists and that would be their story That's not journalism Journalism is going out and finding the story and getting all the facts to sponsorship it No one's going to walk in and bang on the door of a four-star general or a senior civilian agenda leader in the Pentagon I never had that but I did have journalists chasing a story or something was going on with the Army and those things are legitimate he continued If anything what would frustrate us at times is we didn't beat you to it and something bad is happening and we're getting our act together and sometimes Let s wait a couple of days before we talk about that' and you guys are on it And that's journalism WAR DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES NEW COUNTER-NARCOTICS TASK FORCE UNDER TRUMP DIRECTIVE TO CRUSH CARTELSKeane declared he wished his generals trained to interact with the press so they would welcome journalists and not be intimidated by them See the media as your conduit to the American people and that's how I perpetually saw it and inferred in supporting it Keane declared There were times when stories were done that made me flinch a little bit yeah but that's usually because we had done something that wasn't as good as we should've done it HEGSETH BLASTS DEMOCRATS FOR HITTING WAR DEPARTMENT WITH CHUCK SCHUMER SPECIAL'The Pentagon under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is enforcing a new plan requiring journalists to agree to specific conditions in order to be granted access Countless news organizations are pushing back against the approach Nowadays we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon s new requirements which would restrict journalists ability to keep the nation and the world informed of vital national defense issues The strategy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections We will continue to cover the U S military as each of our organizations has done for multiple decades upholding the principles of a free and independent press ABC News CBS News CNN FOX News Media and NBC News stated in a joint announcement CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND BELIEFS NEWS