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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: abstract who wrote (2669)	5/24/2004 7:50:42 PM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

abstract, I understand the severity of the problem reported thus far in the Iraqi prison, and the damage done to our credibility. Having acknowledged that, how can anyone compare what has been reported to Hitler's atrocities? The hysteria running rampant at this moment in time is amazing to me. jpg

To: abstract who wrote (2669)	5/24/2004 8:19:58 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

I hope that Hunter S. Thompson isn't one of your favorite objective, accurate & honest journalists..... Good journalism is concise, factual, and - above all - objective. Yet the day Hunter S. Thompson first handed in his drug-fuelled, dark-humoured copy to Rolling Stone magazine, he tore up the rule book...and smoked it... ...."I don't get any satisfaction out of the old traditional journalist's view - 'I just covered the story. I just gave it a balanced view,'" Thompson said in an interview for Atlantic Unbound. "Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon. How can you be objective about Clinton?" "You know, Gonzo Journalism is a term that I've come to dislike," Thompson said in 1997,"because of the way it's been cast: inaccurate, crazy." New Journalism and Gonzo Journalism aren't licenses for journalists to write anything they want. Despite a need to change names here and there for legal purposes, even Gonzo Journalism is about recording the truth - through the eyes of the writer. It simply uses the descriptive process that is usually found in fiction. Once past the misconception that subjectivity means inaccuracy, New Journalism begins to show its powerful ideas.....