Based on what they did to Audry Hudson (and Michael Hastings), that's their goal.
Read about Michael Hastings from the conservative angle of WorldNet Daily here:
Mystery grows: Journalist died prepping Obama exposé
and from the angry 99 percent liberal angle of Occupy.com here:
Investigation: Who Killed Michael Hastings?
Disturbingly, they both say the same thing.
The mainstream media jumped on Hastings with an immediate character assassination, the reasons for which are abundantly clear in the second article.
“When Michael embarrassed [the media]
by writing a story about what the military is actually up to [rather than reporting what is spoon-fed to them by the Pentagon and other official sources]
, the universal refrain [from the media (and the government)]
was, ‘How dare you!"
“Anytime someone sticks their head up and doesn’t go along, they’re universally despised by the establishment. They were jealous of him, too. The media was not a fan of Michael, at all.”
As one of the articles notes, one of Hastings’s most remembered lines is,
“When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.” And as facts go, the truth behind Michael Hastings’s death, whether he was intentionally killed and by whom, may be opening a much bigger, broader and more dangerous story than the Americans he was writing for are prepared to face.
Some will just stop reading.