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ABSTRACT: Pentagon Targets Stars and Stripes, Leaving Ex-Staffers to Wonder Why

By VASUGI GANESHANANTHAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

August 17, 2001

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has fixed its sights on buying the domestic version of the Stars and Stripes, the venerable servicemen's newspaper that folded in June.

The question is: Why?

The military hasn't decided to resume publication of the paper. Instead, it has made it clear it wants only the Stars and Stripes name, says Jack Colletti, chief executive officer of Stars & Stripes Omnimedia Inc., which bought the paper a year ago but has just filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. While the Stars and Stripes is published privately in the U.S., the Pentagon has used the same name for its own overseas publications for nearly 60 years, and now says it wants to end confusion about who owns what version.

But former Stars and Stripes staffers, who hold out hope the biweekly domestic paper will be restarted, see it differently. The Pentagon's ultimate goal, they believe, is to silence the critical coverage the domestic paper has sometimes offered its readers. "Essentially what's happening is the government is buying a private publication to shut it down," says former Managing Editor Mickey McCarter, who oversaw Stars and Stripes news coverage...

With the Stars and Stripes assets up for sale, the Pentagon saw a chance to end the name dispute once and for all, Mr. Whitman says. But former newspaper staffers as well as some readers point instead to a number of recent, critical articles on the Pentagon's anthrax vaccination program as a source of government ire. The newspaper has reported that the vaccine, part of an effort to inoculate troops against biological warfare, causes debilitating illness in some recipients.

"My question would be: Why has the Pentagon chosen this time to clear up any problems in the identity of the Stars and Stripes brand? It seems an unusual coincidence," says retired Air Force Reserve Col. John Richardson, who has been involved in antivaccine efforts...

But there is little the former staff members can do. First Amendment media lawyer Floyd Abrams says the Department of Defense's move is legal. However, he says, "If the purpose is to avoid confusion, there must be some other way to do that other than stifling the speech of an entity that exists in good part to cover the Pentagon."

Write to Vasugi Ganeshananthan at vasugi.ganeshananthan@dowjones.com

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July 9, 2001
Washington Whispers
By Paul Bedard

$tars and $tripes
Top Bush officials are questioning a plan by the Pentagon's PR department to buy out the private Stars and Stripes so people will stop getting it confused with the military's Stars & Stripes. Insiders tell us that the offer is $1 million. "That's a lot of tax dollars we could use for something else," gripes a Bush aide.
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