Brooke Gladstone
speaker
1,275 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On Wednesday, President Trump offered, not for the first time, a glowing assessment of his war in Iran.
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That report and lately Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth himself have not been going down so well.
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Meanwhile, the Defense Department, having done all it could to hamstring serious news coverage, turned its guns on its own award-winning military news outlet, Stars and Stripes.
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Its staff is paid by the Pentagon, but its editorial independence from the DOD is congressionally mandated.
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Or was
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Getting rid of that rule.
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That was back in January.
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Last month, the other shoe dropped when Andrew Bray, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs, sent the paper's longtime publisher, Max Lederer, an email.
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Attached were notices of termination for the paper's editor-in-chief, Eric Slavin, and its Middle East reporter, Lara Court.
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They were being
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fired for insubordination after appearing in a segment on CBS.
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Stars and Stripes Publisher Max Lederer.
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Just days after announcing his retirement to the entire staff, he says the defense department sent a letter firing him, along with new copies of those firing Slavin and Court.
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She said, I'm working for stars and stripes, not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker.
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I'm here to cover the military.
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Was that insubordinate?
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Maybe it was.
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I think it's worth noting that these termination notices came just the day after the paper published a piece about the worsening conditions aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during the war.
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The carrier had gone over 250 days without a port visit, a historically long deployment.
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Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth claimed that.
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