Pentagon blocks Rolling Stone reporter from embed

[ConHog]

Because no one refutes what he said in the article. The pentagon used that as their reason to deny him embedding, sure. But neither McChrystal nor the Pentagon claimed that anything in the article was obtained falsely.

Yes, they did, the Pentagon flat out said, Hastings printed things he wasn't supposed to. Doesn't mean they weren't said, just that they weren't supposed to be printed, and THAT is exactly why they refused to embed him this time.

Some officials have charged that reporter Michael Hastings failed to follow ground rules when they claim he printed "off the record" comments in which McChrystal viciously criticized Obama administration officials on the war. Hastings, in turn, has called those claims lies, and pointed to the fact that he was about to get an embed position as proof that the Pentagon trusted him. "There's actually an embed that's waiting for me in Afghanistan," he said at a luncheon last week hosted by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The Pentagon has ramped up its investigation into the McChrystal interview, extending its probe to the former general's aides to determine what information they may have provided to Hastings, reports AP. [5]

Rolling Stone reporter denied embed after McChrystal piece. - NewsFeed Researcher - hastings, mcchrystal, embeds, embed, reporters, afghanistan, reporter, stone, rolling, article, lapan, general

You are wrong on this one

Point conceded then. You're right.

Doesn't really change the fact that he shouldn't have said it, or more accurately permitted an atmosphere where others felt it appropriate to say it, but i like to be accurate.

 

[Claudette]

I'm sitting her laughing over this story.

Tell me. Does anyone honestly think that the Army/Pentagon is ever going to let Hastings embed with another military unit??

Hastings pretty much screwed himself when wrote his story. McChrystal screwed up but so did Hastings.

Wishing Hastings the best of luck in his quest to be allowed into an Army unit again. LMAO

 

[Yurt]

Pentagon blocks Rolling Stone reporter from embed

The last time reporter Michael Hastings published a major piece on Afghanistan, the commander on the ground resigned.

Maybe that's why the military's skittish about letting Hastings return.

The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon has denied permission for Hastings to embed with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Hastings offered a clarification on the AP's reporting via Twitter, writing that "the embed had already been approved for September," but "now it has been disapproved."

So, according to Hastings, it's not as if he just asked for permission to embed yesterday and was denied.

Defense Department spokesman Col. David Lapan defended the decision yesterday, telling reporters that "there is no right to embed."

"It is a choice made between units and individual reporters, and a key element of an embed is having trust that the individuals are going to abide by the ground rules," Lapan said. "So in that instance the command in Afghanistan decided there wasn't the trust requisite and denied this request."

Pentagon blocks Rolling Stone reporter from embed - Yahoo! News

lol....to bad so sad...he will never get to do another embed and he deserves it...its pretty clear he reported alot of info/words that was to be off the record and his so called reporting was a smear....not defending mcchrystal....

AaaHaaaaHaaa It wasn't the reporter's fault the general got drunk and shot his mouth off.

who said he was drunk...most of the comments were from his men btw...

further, there is such a thing as professionalism in journalism and when things are supposed to be off record, that means off record...its not the general's fault that the reporter ignored that

 

[Yurt]

i see someone else already mentioned it