(THEY CAN'T MURDER SOPHIA AND ME) One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33.  The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write. Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn’t want him to write — often his subjects; occasionally his editor. While there is no template for a great reporter, he was one for reasons that were intrinsic to who he was: ambitious, skeptical of power and conventional wisdom, and incredibly brave. And he was warm and honest in a way that left him many unlikely friends among people you’d expect to hate him.

Michael, who died at the age of 33 in a high-speed wreck in Los Angeles early Tuesday morning, wasn’t like any reporter I’ve ever worked with. He found conflict constantly, but never by accident. We fought, first, over the adjectives in his stories — “discredited” was a favorite — and then over his theories, which were typically the opposite of whatever I was hearing from my Washington sources. In the meantime I marveled at his talent and at the thing I hadn’t particularly expected: his generosity.

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NOTE HE WAS 33 YEARS OLD.......SACRIFICED??? HIGH SPEED AUTO CRASH......WONDER IF ANY DEMOLITION DERBY DRIVERS WERE INVOLVED ???
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