A Conversation With BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings

We did the norm: Cite the tweets, ask both sides for comment, provide clarification and publish.

Hastings sent us a comment after his boss Ben Smith did. We included both in the post.

After the story ran, we received an email from Hastings that said the following:

“[I]t’s generally an unsound journalistic practice to rely on the advice of public relations people to determine who is/isn’t a good journalist.