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2007-01-19 Iraq

Gunmen Storm Baghdad 'Stars & Stripes' Printing Office -- Just A Business Dispute

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't know, but does anyone think the 'Stars and Stripes' is on our side? That's the so-called news rag, mind you.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-01-19 01:14|| 2007-01-19 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 is any paper on our side?

Posted by Thotle Hupavitch5406 2007-01-19 05:48|| 2007-01-19 05:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Whiskey Mike,

S&S is the 'official' DoD newspaper for the troops. It tends to encourage the party line, but in the past has done some genuinely tough and hard-hitting stories. During GW I they did a series uncovering corruption in the supply system that had it been in a civilian paper it would have gotten a Pulitzer nomination. You might be thinking of the Gannett-owned 'Times' papers (Army Times, Air Force Times, etc)that are usually found in the BXs - they have NO official connection with DOD and tend to have the same attitude as USA Today, except they have a strictly service-oriented slant, and most people I know wouldn't hit a dead dog in the a*s with one.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-19 07:18|| 2007-01-19 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Business dispute? Someone forget their union dues? OSHA violations? Enquiring minds want to know.

Posted by kilowattkid 2007-01-19 10:01|| 2007-01-19 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 #1. Could you be thinking of the now defunct Overseas ~~Oversexed~~ Weekly which was published in Europe from 1950 to 1975 and in the Pacific 1964-1975? "The least popular publication at the Pentagon is the Overseas Weekly ..." - Time Magazine, 10/20/1967

Posted by GK 2007-01-19 13:13|| 2007-01-19 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Think old time UAW, Teamsters, Mine Workers, etc. You need to pay for those extra workers, the ones that never show up.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-01-19 20:43|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-01-19 20:43|| Front Page Top

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