Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Journalism
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
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