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Who was still very much on the upward trajectory of his career but in the time we had with him here on earth, he had a knack in his work for upsetting powerful people. his reporting for "rolling stone" magazine piece called "the runaway general" won a george polk award and resulted in the resignation of general stanley mcchrystal. michaels book "panic 2012" took a scythe not just to the re-election campaign of the sitting president, but also to the press corps that tries to make its own bones ev...

Make its own bones every four years by covering campaigns like that according to the campaigns own rules. in "panic 2012" michael hastings turned to the phrase "off the record" into an epithet that damned the newsmakers but also the journalists who accepted those terms. his book about the iraq war and death of his american fiancee, my friend, andi parhamovich. that book was a heartbreaking and personal story about the war and about that personal relationship. but even then, michaels reporting pu...

Of his work. and in the year since he died, those conspiracy theories have largely faded away except in the wilder corners of the internet which never give up on a conspiracy theory. but you dont have to believe in those crazy theories and i dont to understand why people leapt to that kind of conclusion about his death. michael hastings was a young man who was still very much on the upward trajectory of his career but in the time we had with him here on earth, he had a knack in his work for upse...

Magazine led to stanley mccrystals resignation. he wasnt afraid. >> but he lost his life in june of this year. the world lost a story teller when that happened. heres our last interview with michael hastings. >> michaels out with a new e-book "panic 2012." the inside story of obamas final campaign. we understand you were almost kicked off the plane. there was a revolt. the peasants were coming after you. >> i do not get along too well with organized groups of journalists apparently. >> why is th...

Because of the substance. it was not really a big deal, but it was about, you know, how the campaign and how the press interacted and controlled the narrative that the campaign wants to put out there. any little infraction needs to be slammed down upon very, very quickly. >> there was a moment after the denver debate where the obama team really thought they might lose this thing? because we hear that they were cool, they looked at their data, you know, a lot of nerds said does not compute, will ...

Battle for the presidency last year. his book "panic 2012." is a blistering road trip that exposes so much of the arty fis that surrounds presidential campaigns. he joined us several times on this broadcast. and he particularly enjoyed covering the presidential debates. even offering a cheeky hand signal from our set in florida. >> buzz feed correspondent michael hastings. great to have you here, miking >> almost exactly a year ago, michael hastings offered some advice to budding young journalis...

To the point where he radiated a sort of energy that made you realize he was unafraid and it made you treat him different than other people in the business. i remember talking with michael the night that his "rolling stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to make his way out of the war zone he was in ...

Michael hastings was actually unafraid. to the point where he radiated a sort of energy that made you realize he was unafraid and it made you treat him different than other people in the business. i remember talking with michael the night that his "rolling stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to mak...

Stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to make his way out of the war zone he was in before the moment at which his reporting would cause the firing of the very popular man who was running that war that he was in the middle of. but michael was in kandahar that night and michael stayed. he went out on ...

Of the new digital book "panic 2012, the sublime and terrifying inside story of obamas final campaign ♪ ♪ barbara siegel, also washington correspondent for the middle east website al monitor.com. great to have you all here. >> thank you. >> so i am -- well, where to start? i think the lessons unlearned to me was the most troubling. it seemed to me we had a moment in 2008 particularly in which president obama articulated this kind of alternative foreign policy vision and did so quite forthrig...