Posted on 11/08/2007 12:28:34 PM PST by mdittmar
Terry Leonard has been named the new top editor at Stars and Stripes.
Acting publisher Max Lederer announced Wednesday that Leonard had been selected as editorial director.
Leonard, who is currently the Southern Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press, replaces Dave Mazzarella, who retired as Stripes editor earlier this year and began his second stint as the newspaper’s ombudsman.
During his more than 30 years as a journalist, Leonard has covered the Gulf War and Somalia, Lederer said in a Wednesday e-mail to the Stripes staff.
"Terry brings to [Stars and Stripes] a seasoned journalist who has walked in the areas that are core to the journalism of S&S," the e-mail stated.
Leonard is expected to start in December. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
He spent three years in the Army as a Special Forces medic from 1967 to 1970, according to his resume.
“Stars and Stripes” is going left?
Okay, watch Stars and Stripes tank. Sheesh. Bad call.
Look for a new “surge”...one which depicts US forces as tired, disgruntled, underpaid, overworked etc. Plus, most people don’t know that Stars and Stripes is not an official or even semi-official military publication.
Will the S&S editorials now include instructions on fragging and seeking asylum in Switzerland?
“He spent three years in the Army as a Special Forces medic from 1967 to 1970, according to his resume.”
This gives me hope that he might....MIGHT....demand some sanity in the fairy tales published by this paper. Then again, he’s from AP (All Propaganda, all the time, from morning till night, with no end in sight.)
We shall see....
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