“That’s a threat to the First Amendment, certainly, and the independence that the Congress has long guaranteed for the newsroom,” he said Thursday after reviewing the memo. The Pentagon in January withdrew a federal regulation that underpinned the mandate set by Congress for Stars and Stripes to provide independent journalism to the military community under the principles of the First Amendment. The memo calls on Stars and Stripes to be a “‘hometown-style’ publication for the increasingly niche U.S. military community” and says it “should” republish content created by the Defense Department public affairs offices with a label describing its origin, though it grants the publisher latitude to determine whether such content serves readers’ needs.
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