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Saturday, August 02, 2014

MooPig Blog Department :: "Hunter S. Thompson"

Father of Blogging?
Mixed mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Aug 2, 2014  |  Bryan TX
[Picture LINK]  The man, hero, author, journalist, creator of Gonzo journalism, counter culture icon, jester, nutbag, id embodied, anarchist, alcoholic and drug addict…legend. 

Hunter S. Thompson -- Author profile
born in --  Louisville, Kentucky, The United States July 18, 1937
died -- February 20, 2005
genre -- Nonfiction, Entertainment
influences -- William S. Burroughs, Joseph Conrad, J P P Donleavy, William Faulkner

About this author edit data
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, famous for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories. He is also known for his promotion and use of psychedelics and other mind-altering substances (and to a lesser extent, alcohol and firearms), his libertarian views, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. He died at his own hand in 2005. [LINK]


Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective | Brain Pickings: "An iconoclastic hero of the written word, Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937–February 20, 2005) endures as the godfather of “gonzo journalism” — that once-radical, now-ubiquitous style of New Journalism that does away with claims of capital-O objectivity and instead inserts the author into the story as an active first-person narrator. Thompson, in fact, was characteristically unafraid of vocalizing his opinions as a keen observer of and lively, if not hedonistic, participant in culture. But his opinions of journalism in particular he held and proselytized with especial zest — what it is and what it ought to be, what pretensions it could use to divest and what moral obligations it should at all costs uphold. In Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (public library), the fourth volume of his Gonzo Papers originally published in 1994, Thompson admonishes ..."
'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
It turns out that the Father of Blogging might be Hunter S. Thompson, and his Gonzo journalism. The discourse that propels journalists into action begins with the "Big O," Objectivity. Seems this is not really the case for journalists to exist, according to Thompson.

But in our limited perdition of blogging and writing, we at MooPig Wisdom discover that to be a writer there must be a reader. So to you dear reader, all three of you, we repeat Hunter S. Thompson's words: "...Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for TIME magazine..."


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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/18/hunter-s-thompson-journalism-politics/
http://houston644.rssing.com/chan-12010182/all_p2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5237.Hunter_S_Thompson
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/18/hunter-s-thompson-journalism-politics/
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/16/writers-wakeup-times-literary-productivity-visualization/
http://www.today.com/id/7005168/ns/today-today_books/t/writer-hunter-s-thompson-commits-suicide/#.U90z5fldUYE
http://www.biblio.com/hunter-s-thompson/author/525
http://thesuperslice.com/2012/07/18/hunter-s-thompson/


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