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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. michael's 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 every four years by covering campaigns like that according to the campaign's own rules. in "panic 201...

Make its own bones every four years by covering campaigns like that according to the campaign's 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, michael's reporting pulled no punches and spared no feelings when it came to apportioning blame for why that attack happ...

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 don't have to believe in those crazy theories and i don't 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 upsetting powerful people. his reporting for "rolling stone" magazine piece called "the runaway genera...

Magazine led to stanley mccrystal's resignation. he wasn't afraid. >> but he lost his life in june of this year. the world lost a story teller when that happened. here's our last interview with michael hastings. >> michael's out with a new e-book "panic 2012." the inside story of obama's 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 this? >> i try. >> what do you do? >> well, this time i was covering the obama campaign for buzz ...

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 not lose. >> okay. after the 47% video, everybody within the campaign thought they had it locked up....