The Pentagon will remove “woke distractions” from the Stars and Stripes news publication for the U.S. military and return content to its original mission, U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Sean Parnell announced on Thursday.
“We are bringing Stars & Stripes into the 21st century,” Parnell posted 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.”
The publication reaches around 1.4 million readers every day.
The first known edition of a newspaper for troops was published during the civil war in November 1861 by Union soldiers on presses owned by the Bloomfield Daily Herald. It was a one-issue phenomenon and started a tradition of soldiers publishing news for the troops, according to the Library of Congress….
Pentagon to Remove ‘Woke Distractions’ From Stars and Stripes Publication
