Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Rips a Bad Journalist

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Remember that story in Rolling Stone that ended General McChrystal's career? Matt Taibbi is a different reporter at RS, a darn good one, and he has a great piece up taking a journalist to task for saying that the magazine should've sat on that big juicy story.  It's good stuff.

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Lara Logan, You Suck


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I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter. . ."

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