Posts Tagged ‘Rolling Stone’

Greenwald Is Wrong!

By Carl Prine on Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Greenwald Is Wrong!

I like Glenn Greenwald, but he’s wrong about the journalism of Michael Hastings. We need to have an honest discussion about the belle of many anti-war activists’ ball. Rolling Stone, retract “Another Runaway General.”

An Open Letter to Rolling Stone

By Carl Prine on Thursday, July 28th, 2011

An Open Letter to Rolling Stone

Dear Rolling Stone, please do the right thing. Retract your allegations about Frontier Six. And fix what’s going wrong there.

COINtribute!

By Carl Prine on Friday, May 6th, 2011

COINtribute!

Why I give to Small Wars Journal and some thoughts about why you should, too. I’m bribing them for my long war against Yon.

Kelley’s Heroes

By Carl Prine on Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Kelley’s Heroes

What do you do when a good writer writes idiocy? You give her a right proper caning! Take no Vlahostages on this Day of the Condor!

Starbuck speaks!

By Carl Prine on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Starbuck speaks!

Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Rolling Porn

By Carl Prine on Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Rolling Porn

What Rolling Stone’s hapless “Kill Team” got wrong before it got a few things right, and why soldiers should care.

On Lara Logan and Michael Hastings

By Jamie McIntyre on Monday, July 5th, 2010

Lara Logan’s Friendly Misfire

By Jamie McIntyre on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Lara Logan’s Friendly Misfire

CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan certainly did herself and her fellow war correspondent no favors with her inept defense of war zone ground rules, even as she may have been right about a few things. In defending the press corps, against charges they are too chummy with the military, Logan wounded them grievously with misaimed friendly fire. She unfortunately reinforced the worst stereotype of reporters who “embed” with senior military officers but are actually “in bed” with them.

What WAS he thinking?

By Jamie McIntyre on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

What WAS he thinking?

The Rolling Stone reporter has speculated Gen. Stanley McChrystal exhibited “a sort of natural kind of recklessness.” I have another theory: Gen. McChrystal might have been under the misimpression Hastings would protect him, in return for the great access and candor.