Michael Hastings (journalist)

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Michael Hastings
Born(1980-01-28)January 28, 1980
Nationality United States
Occupationjournalist
Known forReporting that cost Stanley McChrystal his command
Notes

Michael Hastings is a gay journalist and a writer. He is now a regular contributor to Gentlemen's Quarterly.[2] He was a journalist for Newsweek magazine,[3] famous for his Iraq War coverage and book about the death of his fiancée Andrew Parhamovich I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.[4][5][6][3][7]

Stanley McCrystal controversy

In June 2010, Rolling Stone published "The Runaway General", Hastings's profile of US Army general Stanley McChrystal,[8] then commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the war in Afghanistan. The article reported remarks by McChrystal's staff overtly critical and contemptuous of White House staff and other civilian officials, but few direct quotes from McChrystal himself. On June 22, the news of the forthcoming article reached the attention of the American print media and the White House. McChrystal immediately issued an extensive apology, and Duncan Boothby, the civilian contractor responsible for coordinating the article with Hastings, resigned. U.S. President Obama summoned him to the White House on June 23,[9][10] and relieved him of command.[11] Hastings offered his views on relations between McChrystal and the Obama administration.[12]

Hastings was originally meant to have controlled contact, which expanded when he had to catch a bus to Berlin with the general and his entourage after international flights were grounded, because of the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which gave him sufficient time to pick up less discreet remarks. [13]

Publications

  • Hastings, Michael (2008). I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. New York, NY: Scribner.
  • Hastings, Michael (October 2008). "Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter". Gentlemen's Quarterly. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  • Hastings, Michael (April 2009). "Obama's War". GQ. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  • Articles in, inter alia, Foreign Policy, GQ, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek International, Salon, and Slate.

References

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: H1000192617
  2. ^ Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter, GQ, October 2008.
  3. ^ a b Packer, George (April 20, 2008). "What She Did for Love". New York Times Book Review. p. 12. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  4. ^ Wilson, Craig (April 3, 2008). "Grieving journalist writes 'final love letter to Andi'". USA Today. Gannett. p. 3D. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  5. ^ "Backstory". Gentlemen's Quarterly. April 1, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-24. This war. It takes and takes. Drains the budget, flays the soul. Or--immeasurably worse--it claims the person you love most. In January 2007, aid worker Andi Parhamovich was killed in Baghdad while her boyfriend, Newsweek 's Michael Hastings, worked a few miles away (page 166). Hastings has since returned to Iraq; he can't get Andi or the war out of his system.
  6. ^ Iannotti, Lauren (June 1, 2008). "I Lost My Love in Baghdad". Marie Claire. p. 99. Retrieved 2010-06-24. (interview with the author)
  7. ^ Freeman, Jay (April 15, 2008). "I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story.(Brief article)(Book review)". Booklist. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  8. ^ Hastings, Michael (June 22, 2010). "The Runaway General". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  9. ^ Cooper, Helene; Thom Shanker; Dexter Filkins (June 22, 2010). "McChrystal's Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-24. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |curly= (help)
  10. ^ Thomas Ruttig, Farooq Bashar, Brian Katulis, Mike Hannah (June 22, 2010). Funding the Afghan Taliban. Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2010-06-24. General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato military forces in Afghanistan, has been ordered to report to the White House and explain comments he has made about the Obama administration's Afghan policy. In an ironic twist of events, US citizens have discovered that it is their tax money that indirectly funds Taliban - the very people their troops are fighting in Afghanistan.
  11. ^ Waterman, Shaun (June 23, 2010). "McChrystal resigns Afghan command". Washington Times. Retrieved 2010-06-24. President Obama said Wednesday he had accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, bringing to an ignominious end the storied but sometimes controversial career of one of the country's top soldiers. Mr. Obama, who angrily summoned Gen. McChrystal to Washington after the general and several aides disparaged senior members of the administration in a series of interviews with Rolling Stone magazine, ...
  12. ^ Michael Hastings (June 23, 2010 02:52 GMT). Writer explains McChrystal article (4:42). Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2010-06-24. {{cite AV media}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "The volcano claims another victim: General McChrystal - When the ash cloud threw the American commander and a journalist together it was bound to end badly"
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