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Michael Hastings

On Michael Hastings

The journalist who brought down Stanley McChrystal died at age 33.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/18/michael-hastings/?wprss=rss_world

Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33.

June 19, 2013
Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings / Full Metal Racket

Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings:

what had been planned as a dissection of Hastings’s major articles evolved into a broader conversation about American exceptionalism, the process and duty of war reporting, the privatization of American war making, and the Pentagon’s intensifying effort to “tear down the wall”
between public affairs and propaganda

Link: Guernica / Full Metal Racket

May 2, 2011