Reply #10: Military does not run local papers

[tburnsten]

Or local news stations, or regional, or national journalism institutions. The military in this country does not have any say at all in what a news organization does, with the sole exception of times when a journalist is granted special permission to do something like embed with a unit in a combat zone, and even then the only influence the military will exert is for safety reasons, i.e. don't go wandering off alone, don't draw maps of our positions and broadcast them, don't broadcast sensitive information.