Michael Hastings, Journalist and American Hero Dies at 33...

[Ben]

Michael Hastings, Journalist and American Hero Dies at 33:

[Ben]

Michael Hastings and The War on Journalism:

[Prospero]

A good journalist. Hardly a hero.

[volkov2006]

A good journalist. Hardly a hero.

He was a good journalist, but how was he hardly a hero? He challenged the government, he did investigative journalism, when you do that the government does not like you, most of the "main stream" media doesn't like him because he hurt their friends(the government). He was talking about the spying on US citizens before Snowden leaked the info, he got a top US General removed from command because he was incompetent, that to me is the definition of a journalist hero. He actually did his job and when you are a journalist if the people you are reporting on like you you are not doing it right.

[Prospero]

So that makes him a good or even excellent journalist. But it is for me still a curious definition of hero. Plenty of journalists I know are brave souls who report regularly from war zones at great risk to their lives. Some I have known have been killed. That is closer to the heroic in my book

[Prospero]

And for that matter Snowden is a greater hero. He risked everything - and must now hide or face prison. This journalist, good as he was, risked little.

[volkov2006]

Yes Snowden is a bigger hero and Michael Hastings sent most of his career as far as I know in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was a hero for the fact that he died in the line of duty, doing his job. He was doing it so good that the FBI was investigating him although they deny that. Any other journalist that dies ie: Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, or any one else would be considered heroes if they die in another country or in a storm. Although they did not come close to what Hastings reported, and how much the press and the establishment hated him for it. He never gave up he was always on the attack not one step back that in my view and many others is a hero.

Sorry if that doesn't make scents it is time for bed and am starting to really dry eyes, been on the computer for far too long.

[Rabbiteyes]

And for that matter Snowden is a greater hero. He risked everything - and must now hide or face prison. This journalist, good as he was, risked little.

Well, except how crazy fishy the journalists death is.... like, crazy crazy fishy.

He sends out emails about working on something big and warning his friends to be aware of government looking into them.... then he ends up dead a couple hours later in a freak "accident" at 4:30am in hollywood (where his car "accidentally" accelerated to crazy speeds and blew up... happens all the time right?).

Like, really, it is sooo fishy you would think it was taken out of a movie ~_~

[Ben]

Well, except how crazy fishy the journalists death is.... like, crazy crazy fishy.

He sends out emails about working on something big and warning his friends to be aware of government looking into them.... then he ends up dead a couple hours later in a freak "accident" at 4:30am in hollywood (where his car "accidentally" accelerated to crazy speeds and blew up... happens all the time right?).

Like, really, it is sooo fishy you would think it was taken out of a movie ~_~

Alex Jones has noted this.... I don't know. I mean, it could've just been speeding:

[fred41]

Yes Snowden is a bigger hero ..

Snowden's no hero.
He sounds more and more like someone who wanted his moment of fame from the get go..only to escape through countries whose track records of personal privacy (and human rights) are more dismal than the country he's trying to expose.
He's a criminal.