{"id":17791,"date":"2026-01-16T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-taking-over-stars-and-stripes-to-eliminate-woke-distractions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:40","slug":"pentagon-taking-over-stars-and-stripes-to-eliminate-woke-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-taking-over-stars-and-stripes-to-eliminate-woke-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon taking over Stars and Stripes to eliminate &#8216;woke distractions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon announced Thursday it would take editorial control of independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes to refocus coverage on &ldquo;warfighting&rdquo; and remove &ldquo;woke distractions.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Department of War is returning Stars &amp; Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,&rdquo; top Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement&nbsp;posted to the social platform&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5692054-pentagon-control-stars-stripes-newspaper\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon announced Thursday it would take editorial control of independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes to refocus coverage on &ldquo;warfighting&rdquo; and remove &ldquo;woke distractions.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Department of War is returning Stars &amp; Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters,&rdquo; top Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement&nbsp;posted to the social platform&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}