Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Stars and Stripes
Last week, the Pentagon fired three journalists at military newspaper Stars and Stripes: editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and Middle East reporter Lara Korte. It was a little more than a week after the paper reported on a mental-health crisis among the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln, which had spent more than 250 days at sea in support of Iran war operations.
“We’re very proud of that reporting,” Slavin told me in an interview on Wednesday. “We were the first to report many of the details on what was going on aboard the carrier, and that was the product of several weeks of interviews with sailors, with their families, and we were very thorough with it. The administration didn’t single out us in particular, but they certainly did make it known, their displeasure, about the reporting on Lincoln. Approximately ten days later, I received my separation notice. The notice does not state that as a reason. However, it does make me question why it took so long to receive that notice.”
Michael Calderone spoke with Slavin about his firing, the Pentagon’s dealings with the press — now six months since the start of the Iran war — and Stars and Stripes’ unique role in covering the military.
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