Military Paper Challenges Defense Dept.

Source: New York Times

By SARAH ABRUZZESE
Published: December 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes are asking for full disclosure of the paper’s relationship with a Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You, after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the newspaper.

The newspaper’s two top editors have asked that the acting publisher, Max D. Lederer Jr., and the Pentagon official who oversees the program, Allison Barber, release details of a relationship that involves employees of the newspaper’s business department overseeing contracts on behalf of America Supports You. The program was established three years ago to build public support for the troops.

“This is not how an editorially independent newspaper should conduct itself,” the executive editor, Robb Grindstaff, and managing editor, Doug Clawson, said in a Dec. 8 letter to Mr. Lederer and Ms. Barber, and copied to the secretary of defense. The letter added that the refusal to release information was damaging morale on the editorial side of the paper.

“The integrity and credibility of both Stars and Stripes and the D.O.D. public affairs department with our audience is negatively impacted by this continuing scenario,” Mr. Grindstaff and Mr. Clawson wrote.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/us/28stripes.html?ref=us

over the past few years. It is a good read.

inside the US.

How many more black programs are going to come out of the woodwork?

Somebody is in deep doo doo.

How lovely we are so manipulated by the government propaganda we don't even know which way it will come to us next. Add to this Rupert the dear friend of our "Big Brother" and his mindless manipulation of the news, well folks it just gets more scary every day. What evil bass turds.:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: Rome is smoldering.