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" I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. "
Michael Hastings
Journalism
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" General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command. "
Michael Hastings
Normal
Love
Power
" It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent. "
Michael Hastings
Control
Talk
Need
" I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life - are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent. "
Michael Hastings
Glory
War
Stupid
" You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. "
Michael Hastings
Medical
Law
School
" I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. "
Michael Hastings
Care
Difficult
Country
" During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. "
Michael Hastings
Only
Military
Invasion
" Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control. "
Michael Hastings
Never
Control
Fact
" When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. "
Michael Hastings
Writing
Sentence
Mass
" I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future. "
Michael Hastings
Me
Talk
People
" The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time. "
Michael Hastings
Box
Month
Time
" I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy. "
Michael Hastings
Perspective
War
Create
" By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. "
Michael Hastings
Story
Sentence
Second
" Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. "
Michael Hastings
Government
Great
Media
" I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record. "
Michael Hastings
Good
Now
Pretty
" Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama. "
Michael Hastings
Media
Will
Silly
" The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress. "
Michael Hastings
Attached
Fact
Military
" If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job. "
Michael Hastings
Good
Political
Book
" Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work. "
Michael Hastings
Family
Deep
Work
" General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' "
Michael Hastings
Stone
Rolling
General
" Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported. "
Michael Hastings
Rules
Powerful
Conversation
" The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. "
Michael Hastings
Military
Fire
War
" As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "
Michael Hastings
World
Trade
Terrorism
" The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting. "
Michael Hastings
Night
White
September
" It was either write or die for me. "
Michael Hastings
Me
Die
Write
" In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. "
Michael Hastings
Late
Twice
News
" My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. "
Michael Hastings
Leader
Younger Brother
Combat
" As for the like of Hillary Clinton, I - you know, I've covered Secretary of State Clinton before. I covered her during her campaign. And she's a very likable and charismatic person once you get the chance to spend any time close to her. "
Michael Hastings
Know
Time
Person
" There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance. "
Michael Hastings
Leap
Awareness
Surveillance
" I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. "
Michael Hastings
Media
Day
Doubt
" When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer. "
Michael Hastings
Deep
Passion
Love