The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason

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The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason


Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers.


Kathy Kiely Opinion contributor

Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.

In a heretofore unpublicized memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter the Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15 including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”

“The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” writes Col. Paul Haverstick Jr., the memo’s author.
Stars and Stripes' long history

The first Stars and Stripes rolled off presses Nov. 9, 1861 in Bloomfield, Missouri when forces headed by Ulysses Grant overran the tiny town on the way to Cape Girardeau. A group of Grant’s troops who had been pressmen before the war set up shop at a local newspaper office abandoned by its Confederate sympathizer publisher. Since then Stars and Stripes has launched the careers of famous journalists such as cartoonist Bill Mauldin and TV commentator Andy Rooney. And its independence from the Pentagon brass has been guaranteed by such distinguished military leaders at Gens. John G. Pershing, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower once reprimanded Gen. George Patton for trying to censor Mauldin cartoons he didn’t like......................................

[beachbumbob]

1. not going to gain cadet bonepurs any more votes for sure

[Under The Radar]

2. It is bad press when the Truth about Trump is told,

...and you know how he hates bad press.

[Karadeniz]

3. Control the media, fascism 101. Stop the stars and stripes, leave voice of America et al

Available now that his toadie controls it.

[stopdiggin]

4. now THERE'S a smart move ...

no doubt the military budget couldn't sustain the crushing expense ...
military parades, the wall and fly-overs for football games, but ...
the burden was just too much ....

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