Paul Farhi of the Washington Post reports that Stars and Stripes is "up in arms about a Defense Department directive that, they say, could compromise their proud tradition of reporting without the Pentagon’s second-guessing". Good on S&S!
Through war and peace, Stars and Stripes has vigorously guarded its independence from military control. The newspaper that published the World War II cartoons of Bill Mauldin and the dispatches of famed battlefield correspondents covers the American military around the world but is officially separate from it...