If I’m not mistaken I think McCrystal also booted Michael Yon from Afstan as Imbed reporter.
McCrystal wanted a naive, non knowing reporter from a light weight publication who’s editors and readers neither care nor know much about mil operations.
He wanted dumb reporters.
Why?
Well one reason was his getting caught/admitted lying about his Tilman fabrication.
And yet McCrystal was vain. Getting out all that low rent fluff crap about him listening to Mp3 audio books and have low body fat meals and crapping little square bricks of bio degradable scat.