Stars and Stripes reporter says independence "has to be instituted in practice"
Everything below was taken directly out of the reporting and the official record — quotations word for word, legislation straight from Congress.gov. The Record wrote none of it and takes no position on any of it.
From the Article
Reported by CBS News. The paragraphs below are the opening of that article, reproduced word for word — not a summary, and not the whole piece.
Washington — Lara Korte, one of three editorial employees of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes who were dismissed last week after speaking to CBS News, said Monday that the paper's editorial independence remains paramount.
"I've certainly been bolstered to see comments from the Stripes' leadership and from the Pentagon that the Stripes is editorially independent," Korte said. "Obviously that's something that has to be instituted in practice, and I think that's something we're going to get an answer on in the coming weeks and months."
Continue reading at CBS News →