Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

• 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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  Apathy, Mediocrity, Myopia

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.139, Ballantine Books

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Roots, America, Political

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Race, Modern Journalism

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

• Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Long, Journalism, Reason

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

• Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Bridges, Fiction, Journalism

• 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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  World, Strange, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lists, Journalism, Journalist

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

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  Lonely, Thinking, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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  Journalism, Kind, Consciousness

• Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

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  Missing, Drug, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

• 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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  Hurt, Way, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• 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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  Thinking, Political, Causes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ideas, Style, Fiction

  The Great Shark Hunt "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1979)

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