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david packard show david dot com
what we learned yesterday of the death of journalist michael hastings at
thirty three years old in a car accident
in the middle of the night
michael hastings has been uh... he he did a contributor to the young turks for
quite some time
heat is mode he was most known for that story he did for rolling stone back in
twenty ten which
eventually led to the resignation of of general stanley crystal band uh... did
his death was announced by his employers and buzzfeed and at rolling stone
very very sad yesterday on the young turks jected
kind of a retrospective of michael hastings
involvement on the young turks and as he did this this is a guy who really fit
the mold of an actual journalists we have a lot of
reporters some of which do some things that are kind of like journalism
and uh... we we really investigative reporting as something that
has almost gone away completely in part for lack of funding in in part for for
lack of access from corporations and and and politicians
and michael hastings is one of the guys doing it and it's really really sad and
of course shocking and unit n
nine or ten years ago friend of mine died completely unexpectedly and a car
accident louis knew him as well
and when you've when you first hear about that call uid with somebody that
wasn't sick they weren't at all on your radar somebody who might be dying soon
you hear about it
you go through a number of different emotions and uh... i can only imagine
what everybody who knew michael hastings personally what i knew him only through
the young turks and through his work are feeling right now and uh... he he he
will be missed as a person of course but also for what he brought to journalism
really not that many people who were doing what he was doing
i think uh... what he said that type of journalism is is
unfortunately kind of disappearing
and it's it's a shame to lose someone who is so good at actually