Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it "woke"

National.Panhandler Radio ^ | March 14, 2026 | Maria Aspan

[twister881]

Link only.

[twister881]

NPR complaining about new guidelines & restrictions on Stars & Stripes content, when they regularly practice real news blackouts. Sheesh.

[Jonty30]

Headline implied the song. I was like, “what?!?”

[Bikkuri]

It has been woke for more than 2 decades.

[Libloather]

Used to get the European version.

[55Ford]

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell:
“We are bringing Stars & Stripes into the 21st century,” Parnell wrote on X. “We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.”

Parnell said its coverage going forward will prioritize “ALL THINGS MILITARY” and that the paper will no longer publish “repurposed DC gossip columns” and “Associated Press reprints.”

[11th_VA]

Wow - !!! I voted for that too !!!

[trebb]

“It has been woke for more than 2 decades.”

Yep - I stopped reading it in the mid 90s...

[MayflowerMadam]

Excellent news about “Stars and Stripes”.

Better news is that NPR’s panties are in a wad.

[Jeff Chandler]

will no longer publish “repurposed DC gossip columns” and “Associated Press reprints.”

That's gonna leave a mark.

[libertylover]

It has been woke for more than 2 decades.

Agrees with my observation. Sadly.

[jimtorr]

......repurposed DC gossip columns......

Also known as the Washington Post?

[LambSlave]

Started in the mid-to-late 80s.

[trebb]

Yep - I enlisted in ‘74 and by the 80s, they might have one or two articles worth reading - after that it started going woke before going woke was a thing.