Military newspaper challenges connection with PR program
WASHINGTON — Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes
are asking for full disclosure of the paper’s relationship with a
Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You,
after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the
newspaper.
The newspaper’s two top editors have asked that the acting publisher,
Max D. Lederer Jr., and the Pentagon official who oversees the program,
Allison Barber, release details of a relationship that involves
employees of the newspaper’s business department overseeing contracts
on behalf of America Supports You. The program was established three
years ago to build public support for the troops.
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