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华盛顿 —— 上周因接受哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻采访而被解雇的三名《星条旗报》编辑员工之一劳拉·科尔特周一表示，该报的编辑独立性仍然是重中之重。
“看到《星条旗报》领导层和五角大楼方面表态称该报拥有编辑独立性，我确实备受鼓舞，”科尔特说。“显然，这一点必须在实践中得到落实，我认为未来几周乃至几个月内，我们会得到答案。”
五角大楼于周五下令解雇《星条旗报》出版商马克斯·莱德、主编埃里克·斯拉文以及负责中东报道的记者科尔特，给出的理由是违抗命令。斯拉文和科尔特表示，所谓的违抗命令与她们7月接受CBS《周日早间》栏目采访一事有关。
科尔特周一称，她曾就此次采访向上级报备，过去也接受过其他新闻机构的采访。“我们和其他媒体交流并非罕见事，这很正常，我的编辑们都知道我在做这件事，”科尔特说。
在那期《周日早间》节目中，科尔特表示她为《星条旗报》工作，“不是为五角大楼，不是为任何一届政府，也不是为任何政策制定者。我来这里是为了报道军事群体的故事。”
当斯拉文在该节目中被问及是否有不可逾越的红线时，他表示：“‘不要刊发完全准确的报道，反而刊发这篇。这是五角大楼写的。’这就是红线。”
科尔特周一表示，她从未被施压停止报道或刊发特定内容。“据我所知，我们的编辑独立政策一直非常坚定，”她说。
五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔表示，该部门正推动对这份军方报纸进行现代化改造，“将其内容重心从那些消磨士气的‘觉醒式’干扰内容转移开来，调整报道方向以服务新一代军人。”
几十年来，《星条旗报》一直是美军官兵及其家属获取重要信息的渠道，并以编辑独立性为荣。
一位熟悉该报运营的消息人士透露，《星条旗报》每年2900万美元的预算中约有一半来自纳税人。据两名美国官员透露，自越南战争、冷战和二战时期的发行量峰值以来，该报的读者人数有所下降，但日均受众仍达140万人。海外印刷版还能覆盖那些网络连接不稳定且不可靠的偏远地区服役官兵。
科尔特周一表示：“我们不会刊发和军事无关的报道。”她指出，最近的几份备忘录显示，五角大楼希望阻止《星条旗报》转发美联社和《华盛顿邮报》的文章，而她认为这些内容“对我们的读者而言极具价值”。
“我们的读者身处艰苦环境，无法访问网站，也无法上网，因此让他们了解世界上真正发生的事情——哪怕这些事情并非我们直接采写的——也非常重要，”她说。
埃莉诺·沃森、凯瑟琳·沃森和珍妮弗·雅各布斯对本文亦有贡献。
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Fired Stars and Stripes reporter says paper’s editorial independence “has to be instituted in practice”
2026-08-24T15:26:25-0400 / CBS News
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.”
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire Stars and Stripes’ Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and Korte, a reporter who covered the Middle East. The cause cited was insubordination. Slavin and Korte said the alleged insubordination was related to interviews they gave to CBS News for a piece on “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired in July.
Korte said Monday that she had spoken to her superiors about the interview and had spoken to other news organizations in the past. “It’s not unusual for us to speak to other outlets. This is something that’s normal and my editors were aware that I was doing it,” Korte said.
In the “Sunday Morning” story, Korte said that she worked for Stars and Stripes, “not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker. I’m here to cover the military community.”
When Slavin was asked in that piece if he had any red lines that he would not cross, he said, “‘Don’t run a perfectly accurate story, run this instead. Here it is, written by the Pentagon.’ That would be a red line.”
Korte said Monday that she had not been pressured to stop her reporting or publish anything specific. “As far as I understood, our policy of editorial independence was standing very strong,” she said.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell has said the department is moving to modernize the military newspaper and “refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.”
Stars and Stripes has been a source of critical information for members of the military and their families for decades, and has prided itself on editorial independence.
Roughly half of Stars and Stripes’ $29 million annual budget comes from taxpayers, a person familiar with the newspaper’s operations said. Readership has declined since its peaks during the Vietnam War, the Cold War and World War II, according to two U.S. officials, but an average of 1.4 million people see Stars and Stripes each day. Print editions overseas also reach service members in remote locations where internet access is spotty and unreliable.
Korte said Monday that “we don’t write a story unless it has something to do with the military.” She noted that recent memos indicated that the Pentagon was hoping to stop Stars and Stripes from syndicating articles from The Associated Press and The Washington Post, which she said were “of value to our readers.”
“We have readers who are out in austere locations, they can’t access websites, they can’t access the internet, and so keeping them informed about what’s really going on in the world, even when it’s not necessarily something we’re directly writing, is also really important,” she said.
, Eleanor Watson, Kathryn Watson and Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
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