By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium NewsIt should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting full-spectrum control over American media is among the Trump regime’s most perniciously obsessive projects. This is a war on media the Trump regime intends to wage on many fronts, to finish this pencil-sketch of the landscape. To put the case simply, these rules will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military. Pete Hegseth has decreed a radical departure in professional practice for journalists covering the national security state. I am committed to independent journalism for the duration: I see no other future for American media.