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Two veterans accused of robbing WA Army base had Nazi flags, machine gun
By Jake Goldstein-Street Washington State Standard June 5, 2025
Love to see newspeople out asking questions.
What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.
Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.
JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society:
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More news with better info and reporting:
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence and Steve Beynon
June 04, 2025
“Investigators said that one of the veterans admitted in an interview to stealing military property from the Ranger compound for “about two years” to later sell or trade.”
“The military has faced persistent challenges in securing its weapons and equipment, including a notable incident in November when 31 M17 pistols went missing from Fort Benning, Georgia; only three have been recovered. A 2021 investigation by The Associated Press revealed that at least 1,900 firearms disappeared from military stockpiles during the 2010s, with some later turning up at crime scenes. The losses have been blamed on a range of security lapses, including gaps in surveillance and poor recordkeeping.”
“It was unclear how they had apparently easy access to the gate and how the unit accounted for its equipment if thefts had been occurring for two years.”
Elimination Of Local News Reader Comments
Elimination of reader comments works against the idea of paying for an online subscription.
Years ago, I lived in several different small town areas. Places like Kingston, Port Hadlock and north of Penn Cove.
These areas had small, local newspapers and those papers featured active, online comment sections. Paying for a newspaper subscription was OK with me. There were basic rules for commenting, but it did not seem to matter what name people went by. I never cared.
I used to love the comment sections.
Local papers have stripped away all comments from past articles, and removed the opportunity to post comments to new articles.
Various newspapers in the Puget Sound area have gone with this trend.
Suppressing comments, getting away from asking questions related to public policy and telling us they need more support in the form of grant money, subscription and advertising sales, etc.
Got it.
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