2026年8月19日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:47 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯—— 美国官员向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，五角大楼官员曾讨论在《星条旗报》长期出版商按计划退休前将其解雇。目前特朗普政府正计划对这家部分由美国纳税人资助的军事新闻机构进行全面改革。
马克斯·莱德勒担任《星条旗报》出版商已有19年，本周他向同事宣布将于9月30日退休，理由是与特朗普政府存在根本性分歧。总编辑埃里克·斯拉文曾公开表态，包括接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，谈及与五角大楼领导层的分歧。
目前尚不清楚何时会就该新闻机构的领导层作出决定。国防部发言人未立即置评。
该媒体约65%的资金来自国防部，长期以来以其编辑独立性不受五角大楼公共事务部门影响为荣。
五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔曾在社交媒体上发文谈及“让《星条旗报》融入21世纪”，并在1月份写道：“我们将实现其运营现代化，将内容重心从消耗士气的‘觉醒式’议题转移，并调整方向以服务新一代军人。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前报道称，平均每天有140万读者阅读《星条旗报》——主要通过线上渠道，不过该报还会为身处互联网信号不稳定的偏远地区的军人发行纸质版。
两名美国官员表示，公开记录显示，自二战、冷战和越南战争期间的发行量峰值以来，读者数量持续下滑。
记录显示，纸质版报纸年发行量从2019年的约700万份降至2024年的620万份，同期stripes.com网站的独立访客数量也下降了约30%，从每年2000万人次降至1400万人次。
五角大楼工作人员称，大楼内堆放着大量无人问津的报纸，因为军人可以通过其他渠道在线阅读相关文章。
另一项批评声音认为，该报纸大多只是新闻聚合平台，而非以提供原创新闻为主。
记录显示，该报今年预计将为其页面上发布的内容的订阅服务花费约40万美元。该报已不再使用路透社或美联社等通讯社的稿件。帕内尔在1月份表示，该报将“专注于作战、武器系统、体能、战斗力、生存能力以及所有军事相关内容。不再转发经过改编的华盛顿八卦专栏；不再转载美联社稿件。”
报纸通常会使用通讯社稿件，以便向读者报道未被己方采编团队覆盖的新闻。
当被要求置评时，莱德勒周三在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的邮件中表示，在离职前他不适合接受采访。
在周二发给员工的、被哥伦比亚广播公司新闻获取的通知中，莱德勒写道：“很明显，我的领导理念，以及我对《星条旗报》价值和使命的理解，与国防部领导层对该机构的规划方向存在根本性差异。”
他表示，在9月底之前，“我将尽一切努力确保你们每个人的过渡工作都顺利进行。”
多年来，该报纸曾报道美军内部的各类问题，包括住房条件恶化、营房问题以及军事托儿所被指疏于管理等。它还曾刊发批评军事政策和领导层的文章。根据1988年12月美国审计总署提交给国会的、针对军方审查《星条旗报》指控的调查报告，二战期间的德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔将军曾为该报辩护，希望其“不受宣传和军方高层影响”。
近期，《星条旗报》对中东战争及其对军人的影响进行了报道。它是最早报道“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰水兵家属就近九个月的部署时长与代理海军部长对峙事件的媒体之一。
特朗普政府已采取措施限制报道军事相关内容的媒体机构的准入。包括哥伦比亚广播公司新闻在内的新闻机构在2025年被要求离开五角大楼的办公区域，除非它们同意该政府实施的新政策。
《星条旗报》的监察专员于4月被解雇，此前几天她在该报的观点专栏中批评了她所称的对通讯社稿件和联合供稿材料的限制。杰奎琳·史密斯于6月起诉五角大楼，称其被解雇是报复行为，违反了第一修正案赋予她的权利。
Pentagon officials considering firing longtime Stars and Stripes publisher, sources say
August 19, 2026 / 11:47 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Pentagon officials have discussed firing the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes before his scheduled retirement, U.S. officials told CBS News, as the Trump administration strategizes an overhaul of the military news outlet partly funded by American taxpayers.
Max Lederer, who has served as the publisher of Stars and Stripes for 19 years, this week announced to colleagues his decision to retire on Sept. 30, citing fundamental differences with the Trump administration. Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin has spoken publicly, including to CBS News, about disagreements with Pentagon leaders.
It was unclear when a decision on the news outlet’s leadership would be made. Spokespeople for the Defense Department didn’t immediately comment.
The outlet, which receives about 65% of its funding through the Defense Department, has long prided itself on its editorial independence from the public affairs apparatus at the Pentagon.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell has posted on social media about “bringing Stars and Stripes into the 21st century,” writing in January: “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.”
CBS News has reported that an average of 1.4 million people see Stars and Stripes each day — mostly online, although it puts out a print version overseas for service members in remote places where access to the internet can be unreliable.
Two U.S. officials said public records show readership has declined since peaks during World War II, the Cold War and the Vietnam War.
Print delivery slid from about 7 million annual copies in 2019 to 6.2 million in 2024, and unique visitors to stripes.com fell about 30% in that period, from 20 million to 14 million a year, records show.
Pentagon staff said there are stacks of newspapers in the building that seem to go untouched, containing articles that service members can access online from other outlets.
Another complaint has been that the newspaper has been mostly an aggregator of news instead of providing predominantly original news.
The publication was projected to spend about $400,000 this year on subscription services for content that appears on its pages, records show. The outlet no longer uses wire services such as Reuters or The Associated Press. Parnell said in January that the outlet would “focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability, and ALL THINGS MILITARY. No more repurposed DC gossip columns; no more Associated Press reprints.”
Newspapers typically use wire service copy to inform readers of news they are not covering with their own staff.
Asked for comment, Lederer in an email to CBS News on Wednesday said he wasn’t comfortable participating in an interview before he leaves his job.
In his note to staff on Tuesday, which was obtained by CBS News, Lederer wrote: “It has become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.”
He said that until the end of September, “I will do everything I can to make sure the transition is smooth for each of you.”
Over the years, the newspaper has reported on failures inside the military itself, including deteriorating housing, problems in the barracks and allegations of neglect at military child care centers. It has also published writings critical of military policies and leadership. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II famously defended the newspaper and wanted it to be “free from propaganda” and influence from military brass, according to a December 1988 GAO report to Congress examining allegations of military censorship of Stars and Stripes.
Recently, Stars and Stripes has provided coverage of the war in the Middle East and what it means for service members. It was one of the first outlets to report on the families of sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier confronting the acting Navy secretary about the nearly nine-month deployment.
The Trump administration has taken steps to limit access to media outlets that cover the military. News organizations, including CBS News, had to leave their workspaces in the Pentagon in 2025 unless they consented to new policies imposed by the administration.
The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes was fired in April, days after writing an opinion column in the newspaper where she criticized what she described as restrictions placed on wire copy and syndicated material. Jacqueline Smith sued the Pentagon in June alleging that her termination was retaliatory and violated her First Amendment rights.
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