Rolling Stone owned the media world for one week in June, when the magazine published Michael Hastings’ profile of General Stanley McChrystal. The piece instantly became national news when it hit the web on Tuesday, and by Wednesday General McChrystal was in President Obama’s office tendering his resignation.
We’ve learned that Mr. Hastings originally shopped Read More
Michael Hastings will be writing a book based on his explosive “Runaway General” Rolling Stone profile of Stanley McChrystal. Geoff Shandler at Little, Brown bought the proposal, in a deal negotiated by Scott Moyers of the Wylie Agency.
From Little, Brown’s release:
Little, Brown Publisher Michael Pietsch says, “In his brilliant Read More
One week of hindsight brings a few new angles on Rolling Stone’s virtual ouster of General Stanley McChrystal.
The story was a huge success, a comeback of sorts, for Rolling Stone, bringing extraordinary traffic to the magazine’s website — 2.2 unique visitors in two days last week, compared to the site’s monthly Read More
The decision to replace General Stanley McChrystal following his inflammatory remarks to Rolling Stone seems to have been generally well received, but in the grand conservative tradition one man stands at those tides and says, “halt.” That man is David Brooks.
To give Brooks the benefit of the doubt, his Times Read More
General Stanley McChrystal either submitted or offered his resignation, after a day of reporting and shock around his profile in Rolling Stone, “The Runaway General.” Who knows! And maybe, while we’re at it, Joe Klein can tell us the difference between those two things.
In any event: How did we get here? Or, rather, how did Michael Read More
Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s shit-talking in Rolling Stone has caused a massive flap in Washington, and while his insubordination is obviously the larger story, the article details a number of the general’s other idiosyncrasies. For example: while at West Point, McChrystal was the managing editor of the school’s literary magazine, The Pointer and wrote Read More
