Salon.com
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Hegseth fires “Stars and Stripes” journalists, deepens Pentagon press crackdown
The military paper has served troops and their families for generations and Congress protects its independence
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The Free Press
The Battle over ‘Stars and Stripes’
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The publication is supposed to cover the stories that matter to our armed forces without bias. The Pentagon just fired its editor.
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CBS News
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Stars and Stripes reporter says independence "has to be instituted in practice"
Lara Korte, a Stars and Stripes reporter who was dismissed last week, told CBS News on Monday that the paper's editorial independence remains paramount.
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WorldNetDaily
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WATCH: War Department executes major firings at Stars and Stripes amid accusations of ‘insubordination’
'We need to be able to provide independent news to service members. If we can't do that, if we were turned into something other than that, if we were public relations, that's the foxhole'
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Washington Examiner
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Hegseth’s war on critical press coverage hits venerable ‘Stars and Stripes’
The one constant of Pete Hegseth’s reign as self-designated war secretary has been his unbridled contempt for independent journalism that questions any of his rosy pronouncements about the unqualified success or wisdom of his policies. In an attempt to keep the Pentagon press corps from finding out anything he wanted to keep private, Hegseth imposed…
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Exclusive: 'Stars and Stripes' Publisher Fired by Pentagon for Insubordination
While drama over the Pentagon's firing of Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer plays out in the establishment media, sources close to the situation are telling Breitbart News that the military publication had suffered under his 20 years of leadership.
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