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华盛顿8月21日电（路透社）——美国军方报纸《星条旗报》总编辑埃里克·斯拉文周五表示，他因不服从命令被解雇。一位知情人士向路透社证实，五角大楼已向该报管理层发出通知，告知他们将被解雇。
“根据通知，我被解雇是因为我在哥伦比亚广播公司的采访中表示，对服役人员的新闻进行假设性审查将是我的个人红线，”埃里克·斯拉文在一份声明中说道。
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这位不愿公开身份的知情人士表示，原本计划于9月底退休的该报长期社长马克斯·莱德也被解职。莱德在本周宣布退休的电子邮件中写道，很明显五角大楼对该报有了与他不同的新愿景。
曾为该报报道中东事务的劳拉·科尔特周五在社交媒体上表示，她也被解雇了。她称原因是她告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，她为《星条旗报》工作，而非五角大楼。
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五角大楼未立即回应置评请求。
《星条旗报》自第二次世界大战以来持续出版报纸，为全球美军提供新闻，其资金来自国防部，但历来享有编辑独立性。
五角大楼近日任命了一名军方副社长负责该报。五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔在X平台的帖子中引用了这位军方副社长写的一封公开信。
“在截然不同的媒体环境中，我们或许永远无法像二战期间我们的报纸那样，对服役人员产生同样的数字化影响力，但我也认为我们可以做得更好——我们必须为我们最重要的服务对象，也就是组成美国武装部队的男女军人，做得更好，”信中写道。
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在其首届政府任期内，唐纳德·特朗普总统推翻了五角大楼全面关停该报的决定。
新闻自由倡导者批评特朗普政府期间限制记者进入五角大楼的更广泛政策变化，称这些政策压制了言论自由。
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伊德里斯·阿里报道，罗萨尔巴·奥布莱恩编辑
Pentagon fires U.S. military newspaper leadership
August 21, 2026 10:50 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago / Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The editor-in-chief of the Stars and Stripes U.S. military newspaper said on Friday that he was being fired for insubordination and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that the Pentagon had sent notices to the paper’s leadership informing them that they would be let go.
“According to the notice, I am being fired for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a personal red line,” Erik Slavin said in a statement.
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The source familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that Max Lederer, the long-time publisher of the newspaper who was set to retire at the end of September, was also removed.
In his email this week announcing his retirement, Lederer wrote that it was clear that the Pentagon had a new vision for the newspaper that was different from his own.
Lara Korte, who covered the Middle East for the newspaper, said on social media on Friday that she had also been fired. She said it was because she had told CBS News that she works for Stars and Stripes and not the Pentagon.
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The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Stars and Stripes, which has published a newspaper continuously since World War Two and provides news to U.S. troops around the world, receives funding from the Defense Department but has historically been editorially independent.
The Pentagon recently appointed a military deputy to the publisher for the newspaper. In a post on X, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell quoted from an open letter the military deputy had written.
“We may never be able to have the same impact for our service members digitally that our paper had during World War II in a vastly different media environment, but I also believe that we can do better — that we must do better for our most important constituency, the men and women who make up the U.S. Armed Forces,” the letter said.
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In his first administration, President Donald Trump reversed a decision by the Pentagon to shut down the newspaper all together.
Press freedom advocates have criticized broader policy changes under the Trump administration that have limited journalists’ access to the Pentagon, saying they suppressed freedom of speech.
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Reporting by Idrees Ali, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien
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