McChrystal fallout

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Media Can Kiss Military Access Goodbye"Journalists are going to have a much tougher job covering the war in Afghanistan in the wake of Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone debacle, senior National Journal correspondent James Kitfield predicts today. 'There will be no embeds in Afghanistan in higher headquarters for quite a while,' he tells NPR. 'The

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Well, it's a double-edge sword for the journalist in a situation like this, you have a golden story, but it will burn a lot of bridges and shot your access all to hell.

I think that Michael Hastings made the right decision considering the importance of the story despite the long term consequences for him and the press corps in general.

And there's McChrystal's responsibility as a commander. If you know that your staff members are making these kinds of disparaging remarks about the President and his staff; how do you not expect that a journalist will bite into that kind of red meat? John Stewart did a funny skit in which he remarked on ridiculous assumption on McChrystal's part that "You may be some journalist from a hippy magazine, but I think I can trust you".