The press didn’t lose access.
They lost the illusion of it ever being theirs.
The Pentagon didn’t confiscate.
It reclaimed the ritual stage.
They called it “media policy.”
But the spell reads: narrative lockdown.
This isn’t transparency collapsing.
It’s opacity announcing itself.
They didn’t erase the journalists.
They reclassified them as liabilities.
The Department of Defense just dropped the mask.
Now it wants war in the byline.
They’re not managing information.
They’re preloading consent.
Every pass revoked is a threat neutralized.
Every silence, a broadcast.
The conflict isn’t coming.
It’s rehearsing.
And the first draft
was written in vanishing ink.