Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The Pentagon said the three were removed after a CBS interview in which they defended the paper's editorial independence and warned against censorship.
- The Pentagon issued separation notices to Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and Middle East reporter Lara Korte.
- Erik Slavin stated he was fired for insubordination after asserting in a CBS interview that hypothetical military censorship of news for service members would cross a red line.
- The terminations follow the Pentagon's recent appointment of Navy Capt. William Urban as a military deputy publisher without the newsroom's prior knowledge.
- Democratic senators sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth inquiring into the installation of active-duty military leadership within the editorially independent publication.
- Press freedom advocates expressed strong concern over the dismissals, viewing them as part of broader efforts by defense leadership to exert control over the outlet.
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The U.S. Department of Defense dismissed the editor and publisher of *Stars and Stripes* for insubordination after they reported on the conditions of the USS Abraham Lincoln. The Department of Defense is tightening control by abolishing regulations on the independent editorial rights of military publications, and this move is facing fierce criticism from the media industry, which views it as an attempt to distort the direction of military report…
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The editor-in-chief of the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes fears increasing censorship, he tells the British broadcaster BBC. Erik Slavin was summarily fired by the US Department of Defense for ‘insubordination’, or refusing a lawful order.
The editor-in-chief of the American military newspaper ‘Stars and Stripes’ fears increasing censorship, he told the BBC. Erik Slavin was summarily dismissed by the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) for “insubordination,” or refusing a lawful order.
Previously, the publication published material on the conditions of the crew's stay on the Abraham Lincoln carrier and opposed censorship.
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