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Earlier today Rolling Stone released an interview with General Stanley McChrystal in which the the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan criticized the Obama administration’s handling of Iraq . The conflict between US Army General stationed in the theater of war and the White House has been the top news story of the day, and already lead to speculation that McChrystal will be replaced, so claims his former colleague Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer on Fox News.
Op-Ed Columnist - General McChrystal and the Culture of Exposure
So every few weeks I find myself on the receiving end of little burst of off-the-record trash talk. Senators privately moan about other senators. Administration officials gripe about other administration officials. People in the White House complain about the idiots in Congress, and the idiots in Congress complain about the idiots in the White House — especially if they’re in the same party.
You might call Matt Taibbi’s angry response , on the Rolling Stone Web site, to Lara Logan’s comments on CNN about how reporters ought to behave a rant—but doing so would imply that he was overreacting, and, as heated as his tone was, he’s not, really. So it’s more like a jeremiad. Logan, who is CBS’s chief foreign correspondent, said that she wasn’t sure that she would have used the story Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone writer, had in his hands after spending time with General Stanley McChrystal and his crew. “Well, it really depends on the circumstances,” Logan said. What circumstances? She doesn’t quite say; instead, she immediately launches into what Taibbi calls the part of the interview that made him “really furious,” as well it should have: her suggestion that Hastings is a liar.
Close Read: Defending Rolling Stone : The New Yorker
Rolling Stone fact checker sent McChrystal aide 30 questions
Rolling Stone magazine sent an aide to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal a list of 30 questions to check facts in a profile of the commander. The questions contained no hint of what became the controversial portions of the story. The magazine's executive editor, Eric Bates, denied that Michael Hastings, the author of the story, violated any ground rules in writing about the four weeks he spent with McChrystal and his team. Fact Checking Questions:
Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent . She is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News , and a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes . Personal life Logan was born in Durban, South Africa . She attended high school at Durban Girls' College , and the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992 with a degree in commerce.