# Fired US military newspaper editor voices censorship fears

https://mins.news/en/item/29395

- BBC News, 2026-08-22 16:57 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2g23ng8p4o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, says he fears censorship and believes he was dismissed by the US Department of Defense for saying in an interview that censorship would be a “red line” in a hypothetical situation. A reporter and the publisher were also fired, and Slavin says he had no right to appeal.

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