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Pentagon Restricts 'Stars & Stripes' Content in New 'Modernization Plan'
The Pentagon's eight-page memo imposes new content restrictions on Stars and Stripes, affecting wire-service use and requiring official public affairs material alongside staff reports.
- An eight-page memo dated March 9 expands Defense Department oversight of Stars and Stripes and imposes interim content policies effective immediately.
- Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell wrote the effort will 'modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members', including a transition from print to digital.
- The memo directs that the ombudsman route congressional information through the Defense Department Legislative Affairs Office, prohibits FOIA requests, and bans publishing controlled unclassified information.
- Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin said he felt deep concern and the newsroom will meet Monday to determine how to comply, while publisher Max Lederer began implementation meetings after notifying staff Thursday.
- Press-Freedom groups warned that the federal regulation withdrawn by the Pentagon in January raises governance questions and risks curtailing coverage of war zones and national sports with Uniform Code of Military Justice 'good order and discipline' implications.
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Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it "woke"
The Defense Department has begun to exert greater control over Stars and Stripes, weeks after a top spokesman accused the independent military newspaper of focusing on “woke distractions.”The Pentagon announced what it calls “modernization” changes this week, in a memo dated March 9 and effective immediately, according to a copy seen by NPR and first reported by Stars and Stripes on Friday. It’s the latest effort by the Pentagon and Defense Secr…
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