we have the reporter hastings for hour or so who broke the java crystal story
and uh... that establishment press
he'd stand for
here you break a story
when you after ownership our job is to protect the military
never show their downsides
or their frailties of their weaknesses or where they're wrong
or job is to protect the military and establishment in power
now was very disappointing is or that biggest cheerleaders for that
philosophy turns out to be loyal okay
from c_b_s_
who is on some good reporting
uh... from the war zones that we've shown it to you before
but i think your opinions here are outrageous
sat prophetic
and show you exactly what's wrong with the mainstream press let's go to put number one
issue find howard kurtz about
uh... hastens report
rolling stone piece today and the general crystals career raises an intriguing journalistic
question could this have happened with the military be reporter
for yourselves or with plenty of experience in afghanistan and iraq c_b_s_'s chief our
cars firepower loaded welcome
if you had to shut down for celebrities comments about oracle bob joe biden jim jones richard
holbrooke would you report them
but it really depends on the second time to tighten and michael hastings if you believe
him says that there were no ground rules laid out
and that at and that just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me because if you look at
the people around him a crystal to look at his history he was dead joint special operations
commander he has a history of not interacting with the media at all and uh... and his chief
of intelligence friction is the same i mean i know these people they never let their guard
down like that to me something doesn't add up keratitis i don't believe it
when you are out with the troops in your living together sleep together is there a unspoken
agreement accenture not to embarrass by reporting in salsa dancer yes tell me about yes absolutely
there is an element of trust
and uh... what i find is the most anything about what michael he's thinks it in your
interview
is that he talked about his matters pretending to build an unusual enough trust and his heat
you know he is he's laid out there what his gayness that is exactly the kind of damaging
type of attitude that makes it difficult for reporters who are genuine about what they
do who don't dispute i don't go around my personal life pretending to be one thing and
then being something else i mean i finally agreed just said it would do that in a professional
life and and and i think that's the point of view when ipods into you someone about
something difficult and a one of the areas of the interview i might not say what we're
going to spend a whole interview on this but i would expect i wonder if that kind of education
blindside because i don't believe in that but don't be reporters uh...
the nice starting nice to people to in their confidence and sometimes
they have to write things that are not flattering
of course and then exp
in the military is a good example i have never been they never know what to do with me because
i've never been accused of being left at me not being right wing in you know they wanna
pay me is that it was the expected me to be that way but if you look at my body of work
it's always been accurate if it now michael hastings might my buddy work in sick of is
an example of another one of those report is unlike me that didn't go to tell the truth
because they want to come back that's not the case
now now it sounds like there is the case
i mean you tell me with your own
one out there you're saying hey look
i'd basically let him go to my questions at that dona blindside m
by doing reporting
we have to build an element of trust so that i can get back in
and do another big story for that
and these guys
they would never talk to the press emulate when the kriso
leak that he needed the forty thousand more troops for the press you mean when the crystal
was in charge of the press interact in the beginning of the war
he he he would never talk the president never let its guard down
it's of all the time to use as you guys right
i'll come on and she sees personally offended
how come we couldn't protect my good friend of the grisly life bread
i trust that he trusts me i would never do about story about it
i can't believe casings would say that we don't do bad stories about them
his sexuality
all right let's go to put number two
rural things have been written about that
stemming the crystal been calling profiles he's suggesting that he'd get a job it's a
very good with the charleston not that i think that's insulting an arrogance myself
i really do because
there are very good data points
who've been covering these wars for years year after year
we michael he sings looking back at the late in the scene
and he was there for significant time he has his credentials
but he's not the only one
there are lot of very good report is out there and you go and to be fair to the military
if they believe that a peace is balanced
they will let you back they may not have loved it they didn't have the peace i get about
you know and hand grenades being thrown in iraq that working troops it enough that he's
made a lot of people very angry didn't block me from coming back
washington post uh... quoted unnamed senior military official as saying that michael hastings
broke the off the record growls
but the person who said this
was on background would allow is the thing is is that fair
what is concentrating on these you blame me
that combines in general if anything just lost his job who else is going to stop believing
all the senior leadership in afghanistan awaiting for the acts of fall
i've been speaking to someone they don't know who's gonna stay in who's going to go
and maybe just the question is really is what your workers and his aides are doing so egregious
that they deserved see anita and a career like the crystals and michael hastings has
never served his country to increase the house
almighty let's listen i have listened to her
how could you and their career like this other people could lose their jobs but you know
our jobs report is to protect them
to protect their careers
and you know how workers at a mood enjoy going stop in every right goes up by because we
have cold
that's what we do
we'll and their careers will jeopardize about writing bad stuff
ones i wrote a balanced piece
buddy so let me back it
congradulations job well done
she's a no do you notice no dot are not the right don't no no no no no no no no no no
no no
well i don't i don't get to what the truth is
no i give them balance pieces the daylight so no one will criticize me and well let me
back yet
look i might not believe that there's anything to say
to the degree that he was saying about the beat reporters in the war after watching leh
logan are now believe him completely
you gave him a calamitous bet weekly again alone
overall though
he's gone down all riley
and listen to what he says about
uh... hastings
and and protecting
the military
who could number four
michael hastings far left as you said
and the general was very foolish litem into his inner circle
the foxes agar brother very dissects on the internal isn't front saying these things was
wrong
for printing provocative calls from chris on the staff kerala joins us now from upstate
new york let's get to uh...
war of uh... journalism here
you know uh... and i'm trying to put myself in in hastings position
if i'm there and i'm in a bar and
and since then
uh... the crystal is geyser spouting off about biden and and be in a moron and all these
other things
and it's not off the record while they you know that when you
allowed journalism in you say look this is on the record this is off the record but if
it's not off the record i mean you know i'm write it down
you know they all love this is a situation where you have to put it in the context of
war
and warriors and on her
and be for number up friday c
that is presumed when it's not on the record specifically
when you are hanging out at a bar waiting for a plane or train
weren't automobile when you're stuck together
hours and hours and you were drinking in a bar
where you're at at added airport outlandish
this is not an interview context these guys particularly the staffers
who gave the most damning
uh... statements about the civilians in office including the vice president of the united
states these guys had no idea
but they were being fitted are not sure about that story order where how about bill on this
reporter for rolling stone
what he was the rest
in that details that's what he did was to become
part of the background part of the scenery
knowing full well
given his uh... political i idolize walk-through did everything else is attitude
he knew what he wanted to do up and i just think you have not disputing that was not
up to eighty later
candle stand when the crystals notes relating hitter
if up its efforts races babe ruth and i agree with that analogy fidel stomach is the appearance
of the derek u_p_i_ white house majority reroute the floored more than any findings are and
i really am
startups cicada are taking deep breaths already got a walk with me through this interview
ok combat
callbacks
perfect fairness
growth
a lot of these eleven democrats
you what's good about
and he but they often do they sleep together i don't mean like this has been bed together
but they're in bed
air imbedded
and he thinks
standard question does
married
tucson
eagle anderson wrapped in an eagles that's
did reporting
kerala public journalist
and wrote down things that were true
no we're not supposed to do that
if you he said he said look there's a pretty xo warriors there's honor here honor meaning
you never
report anything bad about them ever right
editors privacy your you're right
porter view our reporter name would completely forgot what reporters as opposed to do
and he says
well unless something is on the record
specifically
then you should not report it you know that means
his photographer
here here put this on the record specifically raw bill and he writes it down and any hesitant
he broke a story now he got
what lou gehrig gave her
flow
using these guys are reporting the truth
supermarkets in iraq
all they're doing is trying to protect their jobs and they get this hero worship
not just that
the generals not just the troops
of the government of this traveler smith of power
they battled on the power has power gets them paid
for all those which offer this
why qasim average challenge them
landed his job
terrible there also a good journalism
it's a joke to put joe wasnt
and are these people in the same sentence
their path static
and that's why we never find out what's really happening in those wars
let alone anything else on washington
god bless michael a sings but only one or ever did any report
face flock
gotta get so mad
your obligation is supposed to be offs not better not oliver
leverage or was in school
even look at the definition of a journalist
your path frantic
your quite a bit
everyone is more position more power
and for the people into a position of power felt like you although none stop out on that
head at umass nice job well noted
that you keep reporting balance stuff but we give you
otherwise we'll let you back in allege or rather than eagles nest
don't be iraq be a good guy
do exactly as we tell you about your head
fuckin reporters