The next bunch of "journalists" were in the mind set of being main stream journalists...what ever the hell that is, and spent their time roaming the halls of the Pentagon, attempting to sniff out alleged corruption, chasing that ever-elusive Pulitzer, and sucking up the Hollywood set, begging to be "Technical Advisors" for all the crap movies that the Pentagon was overseeing.
Then came the "combat corespondents"...the Jake Tappers of the war reporters, so full of themselves that even when they did find a good story, they mucked it up with the crybaby crap to the point that readers usually ended up diabetic.
That bunch did little other than to piss off every commander in the field with their total disregard for SIGINT, publishing some of the most outrageous and embellished crap that put the National Enquirer to shame.
Now, they are just sad caricatures of NY Times wannabes.
The don't find news, they make it up and every damned one of them is eat up with SJW aspirations and anti-republicanism and liberalism.
I spent several years chasing the likes of those assholes off of Fort Hood, especially during the runup to Desert Storm.
The stories I could tell.
The whole damned bunch need to go back to publishing promotion lists and PX open/close times.
That's about the only damned thing that they ever did well at...and screwed it up half the time.
WIKI: Founded in 1940, Army Times was purchased by the Gannett Company in August 1997. The company’s Military Times group publishes four bimonthly newspapers aimed at current and former U.S. military personnel: Army Times (founded 1940), Navy Times (founded 1951), Air Force Times (founded 1947), and Marine Corps Times. It also publishes Defense News (founded 1986), C4ISRNET and Federal Times. As part of a spinoff...in 2015, Gannett spun off these properties to Tegna. In March 2016, Tegna sold Sightline Media Group to Regent, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein.
In 2011, hackers breached a Sightline database of subscribers, obtaining their names, passwords, email addresses, duty status, paygrade, and branch of service.[2]
I was stationed in Germany; all I remember about Stars & Stripes is it cost 20 cents and sometimes (too often) there was news that a senior NCO or commander in his mid-40’s had collapsed and died while leading a PT formation.
S&S always gave it a full page writeup with an undertone of “nyah, nyah, nyah” at the tragic event. The writer must have been some doughy out of shape E-3.
But even S&S wasn’t as bad as Overseas Weekly in Vietnam, aka “Oversexed Weekly”. It was openly subversive, just like all the “underground” tabloids of the time.
I knew liberals in the Army; for some reason they were usually West Point grads.