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Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes, calling it ‘woke’
Pentagon will refocus Stars and Stripes on warfighter interests, replacing 50% of content with Defense Department materials and ending republished wire service reports.
- On Thursday, the Pentagon said it would take over editorial content decision-making for Stars and Stripes, returning the military newspaper to reporting for warfighters.
- Stars and Stripes has long served U.S. government personnel overseas, first appearing during the Civil War and continuously publishing since World War II.
- Announcing editorial changes, the DoD stated Stars and Stripes will stop posting `repurposed DC gossip columns` and `Associated Press reprints`, focusing on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, and survivability.
- Spokespersons for Hegseth's office declined to provide additional comment Thursday morning, and the announcement affects U.S. military troops worldwide through daily newspapers and stripes.com.
- The directive requires a free flow of news and information to its readership without news management or censorship, which raises questions about editorial independence after the Pentagon's announcement, as Stars and Stripes is governed by Department of Defense Directive 5122.11.
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U.S. Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate ‘woke distractions’
The Pentagon said Thursday that it is changing the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes so it concentrates on “reporting for our warfighters” and no longer includes “woke distractions.”
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Read Full ArticleDepartment of War vows to make military news source Stars and Stripes less ‘woke’
The Department of War intends to shape the independent military publication Stars and Stripes to reflect the ethos of Pete Hegseth‘s Pentagon. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell laid out the Defense Department’s editorial plan in a social media post on Thursday, in which he vowed to bring the paper — which traces its roots to the Civil War — “into the 21st century.” “We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distrac…
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