Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash At Age 33

June 18, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Michael Hastings Dies In Car Crash At Age 33 Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early Tuesday at the age of 33, according to a statement from his employer, BuzzFeed. Hastings, who was also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, is perhaps best known for his candid Rolling Stone interview with General Stanley McChrystal, then the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, that eventually led to McChrystal being relieved of his command. Hastings joined BuzzFeed in April 2012 to cover the presidential election. "We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone," BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith said in a statement. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael was also a wonderful, generous colleague and a joy to work with. Our thoughts are with Elise and and the rest of his family and we are going to miss him." Continue reading... You Wouldn't Know This Was Happening If You Were Watching Turkish TV CNN's New Host Gets Political So This Happened PHOTO: New Yorker Cover Jabs Obama Administration WATCH: Whoopi LOSES IT Mika Admits 'Hypocrisy' Over NSA Scandals Mika Admits 'Hypocrisy' Over NSA Scandals WATCH: Whoopi LOSES IT WATCH: Whoopi LOSES IT Christiane Amanpour Slams Turkish Newspaper For Fake Interview Columnist Accuses Female Soldiers Of 'Hoaxes' In Sexual Assaults JULIAN ASSANGE On the First Day of the Manning Trial In the end it is not Bradley Manning who is on trial. His trial ended long ago. The defendant now, and for the next 12 weeks, is the United States. A runaway military, whose misdeeds have been laid bare, and a secretive government at war with the public. They sit in the docks. We are called to serve as jurists. We must not turn away. Continue reading... MICHAEL CALDERONE Washington Post Names Steven Ginsberg As Senior Politics Editor Washington Post promotes National political editor. Continue reading... RAINEY REITMAN Day One of the Manning Trial: How Public Will This Court Martial Be? The first day of Private First Class Bradley Manning's court martial kicked off with Judge Denise Lind tackling one of the most contentious issues of the trial: whether the press and public will be allowed access to the trial of the WikiLeaks whistleblower. Continue reading... BRIAN ROSS The More Movie Critics Think They Know About Now You See Me, the Less They Know I'm not going to do a movie review of the sleeper summer hit Now You See Me, and the less I tell you, the more that you will know about this magical movie, and why it annoys critics and delights audiences. Continue reading... ELLIOTT NEGIN Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation When it comes to climate, identifiable contrarian groups share the same goals as their corporate underwriters: sow doubt about the reality or seriousness of global warming, stifle government efforts to curb carbon emissions, and hinder the growth of renewable energy technologies. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003