The Stars and Stripes was my newspaper of choice in my Marine Corps days overseas on Guam and Okinawa during the mid-80s, if for no other reason than they were one of the first papers to publish Calvin and Hobbes on the comics page. They banked an awful lot of brownie points with me for that move, and I can forgive some obvious partisanship.
Doug Fields Tampa, FL ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Kevin M. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:52 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Famed military 'paper' facing closure We’d get issues sometimes in the Peace Corps, along with the international edition of Newsweek. Both were extremely partisan, poorly edited, and just shy of propaganda. On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:04 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Plump's latest budget would zero out the $15.5mil funding for Stars and Stripes, in existence since the Civil War (!) with north of 1.3mil current readers, and both sides of the aisle are not thrilled, even POTUS ally Lindsey Graham... Kathy Kiely, to her old paper: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/04/trump-and-stars-and-stripes-attacking-american-icon-column/5706859002/ (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/fa2fb161-6c8a-44ec-8a1f-42d4ca138fefn%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/fa2fb161-6c8a-44ec-8a1f-42d4ca138fefn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BQi2gTTufe36JEnzd%3D3E5m8%3DZFML-F26xfoSVb2NCbjQ%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BQi2gTTufe36JEnzd%3D3E5m8%3DZFML-F26xfoSVb2NCbjQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/DM5PR14MB16287B06E11A95F6CE8129F4C62A0%40DM5PR14MB1628.namprd14.prod.outlook.com.
