Hunter S. Tompson and Gonzo Journalism Essay -- Gonzo Journalism Argum

hunter S. Tompson and Gonzo Journalism In the late sixties a young journalist and free lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson (HST) emerged with a new, crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. It was sooner or later referred to as Gonzo. HSTs own definition of gonzo has varied over the years, moreover he still maintains that a good gonzo journalist needs the talent of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor and that gonzo is a style of reporting based on William Faulkners idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of news media(Carroll, pageboy 192). Gonzo journalism has also been referred to as outlaw journalism, new journalism, alternative journalism, literary cubism, and other words better not repeated here. With such high pen stages for his writings in Rolling Stone Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire and Vanity Fair, HST has proven that his exaggerated gonzo journalism is as relevant (or even more so) than that of conventional journalists. In this essay, the conception and development of gonzo journalism and its relevance to media and reporting will be thoroughly explored. Dr Hunter S. Thompson is a man of great wit and charisma. He is 62 tall, and, due to the fact that one leg is longer than the other, he tends to bob back and forth. He is apparently always thirsty, and his favorite drinks are known to be Wild Turkey and Chivas Regal. Besides being a writer and failed politician, HST is also a collector of peacocks and guns. HST is also happily divorced with one son, Juan. Dr Thompsons journalism career began in the occasional columns of small town newspapers, but because of differences in personality, opinion and style, he did... ...elevant as any other anchormans daily news report.BibliographyCarrol, Jean E. Hunter The Strange and Savage life of Hunter S. Thompson.New York Plume, 1993Thompson, Hunter S. The Great Shark Hunt.New York Fawcett Popular Librar y, 1980Thompson, Hunter S. worry and Loathing in Las Vegas A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York Vintage Books, July 1989Thompson, Hunter S. Songs of the Doomed More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. New York Summit, 1990Thompson, Hunter S. Better Than Sex Confessions of a Political Junkie. New York Ballantine, 1994Thompson, Hunter S. Generation Swine Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s.New York Summit, 1988Thompson, Hunter S. The Curse of Lono.New York Bantam, 1983Wolfe, Tom The New Journalism.New York Harper & Row, 1973