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2. "Gonzo Who? (I)

What are the most notable features gonzo journalism ? We could perhaps talk of a genre of investigative journalism, journalism and journalism undercover embedded in which the journalist does not give to be the narrative voice. A journalism, gonzo , HST inseparable from his character and his lifestyle. This has led to stagnation, to regard it as a private road, closed to traffic. Many have tried to partner fops gonzo style and cad, but gonzo journalism still marked by a way of life and a personality that overshadows everything, to consideration detailed laws. The followers have been few, always eager to prominence more than journalism. However, maybe that gonzo journalism associated Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a distortion of the term, already contaminated from his baptism, and a sadistic act of historical revisionism with the media and a brilliant editorial strategy as accomplices. Not Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas gonzo journalism ? Rather gonzo literature. Posts

to defoliate the ornaments and rhetoric gonzo journalism, in order to show its inaccuracy as a genre of journalism, it should ask: What kind of journalism is not likely to pose a direct approach to the news? This premise is part of abc journalism, the street, the one who dictates that to write fairly about something you have to poach in life, stepping on the field. It is also argued that the gonzo journalist , as a party involved in the story, just to influence the same epic encouraging and stoking the bonfire of vanities. However, any event you attend a journalist is filtered and the conduct of its participants suffers and is automatically altered. Is Therefore, the difference in the wording? Does the inclusion of the journalist as narrator protagonist or witness, in the wording that the reader is going to eat? Whether through an alter ego or openly. If so, the entire investigative reporter in which the journalist goes into a story, sometimes for weeks, ending finally opting for a neutral point of view and should be considered testimonial not gonzo. In Cold Blood, for example, despite the fieldwork and the involvement of Capote is not gonzo journalism, author chose as its point of view of editorial omniscience.


John Sacks (1930-2004), for example, would also be out of the box. author of An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945 , Sacks is a noted journalist, in particular through its coverage of the war in Vietnam. In his book M (1966), Sacks is embedded in a company of soldiers, from the selection process and training to step on Vietnam, in order to recount their thoughts during different operations. Sacks chose to make bold use of interior monologues of various characters through a point of view of editorial omniscience gave quite a few headaches to Esquire magazine.

By contrast, infiltrating for ten days in a mental hospital making everyone believe that you're not sane, as did Nellie Bly to report in Ten Days in a Mad-House is pure gonzo. She narrated in person. In short, the spirit of gonzo is not only participate but also be seen: the field work and involvement are taken for granted in journalism. The immersion and involvement may lead to the concealment of identity, but not required, if it is the first person, even a high school in the narrative voice, a voice and no mirror reflection.
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And this is also accepted that gonzo journalist, embedded journalist , investigative journalist, the undercover reporter ... they are complementary and interchangeable definitions. The overlap is inevitable and is sometimes marked by the theme, as in the case of journalist associated embedded journalism in war. However, rule out the inclusion of new definitions such as the creation informative journalism, with more rhetoric and frankly that unambiguous conclusions.



The main feature of journalism gonzo is your point of view narrator protagonist or witness, partner with the story, and often kamikaze, I a high voltage. A first person narrative that not only notes but also participates in the events in question. The main character in the story, the same journalist, the voice Rapporteur in an exercise of extreme subjectivity, because unlike other peripheral viewpoints using various sources of information is more limited, but is able to combine Wallraff gonzo exercise with large doses of information in their work, a real way forward. Central character, HST, for example, merely tell the story as he feels, through his ideas, prejudices, experiences, moral ... never a passive or contemplative, but always as a participant observer and provocative without providing excessive data to frame the story and meaning. The narrator is the center and everything revolves around him. This implies that either fits you the way you see things or you reject it, especially with HST. It's a love-hate relationship at a glance where the barrier between the reader of the journalist is demolished and the reality is mixed with fiction. The reporter does not hide, rather exhibits its most eccentric garb, his experience makes the genesis of the story. Thus we can imagine drinking HST in the same bars the biker gang Hells Angels , perhaps equally complimented on a foul to the waitresses and sleeping in a motel with some of them, getting drunk with them, committing any brutality, participating in his mystical ... all I have to say HST I did not know whether he was investigating them or being absorbed by them.

[...] When I work and I express myself as a journalist and writer, I never hearsay, second hand, I work primarily to express what I myself have lived, as I can testify and what I can assure myself. And, ultimately, lives and feels something in his own flesh gets much faster conclusions and more decisive than only heard or read some reports in this regard.

Gunter Wallraff

The hallmarks of gonzo journalism are somewhat fuzzy: a mixed bag filled with often diverse and disordered materials of different nature, ownership and purpose. In addition, new ground with room for a work of compilation and classification of journalistic materials, with the aim of paying tribute to their predecessors (Nelly Bly or Egon Erwin Kisch, for example) and draw a timeline more legitimate and less reductionist anchored HST. Often from the tradition of muckrackers , often from the worst tradition of HST (exhibitionism and self-centered), gonzo journalism has a long history in the letters that remain unexplored. As The New Journalism , it is a heterogeneous movement, never school, but much more underground and minority Talese and company. gonzo journalism is an ethical attitude, ideological and stylistic HST does not take an inevitable toll, nor a pattern of validation.


The main setback from a journalistic point of view, exacerbated the risk of autobiography, as Albert says Chillon, in addition to pitfall of putting the presence of the journalist to the events themselves, the excitement of being at what is happening. Are the facts sacred dogma, comments Are Free is violated and ridiculed. The journalist reporting while creating a biography so far, knowing that no other voice is going to counter, knowing that through the stories they are living their own stands and, of course, it must be exciting and groundbreaking. This is clearly seen in the context of the stories gonzo journalism , high risk (Hell's Angels) . Happens then the reporter misses the story, its usefulness as a journalist in relation to society, and emphasizes his adventures in the anecdotal, as cool. is at that moment when the story newsworthy is diluted in a romantic and picturesque writing me. The narrator becomes the star and the story in a mere accessory to his elevation. However, that can not forget that when the implication is legitimate and sincere gonzo journalism provides a unique perspective inaccessible to conventional reporting.

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A standardized definition gonzo journalism that tells of a style of reporting in which the journalist involved is part of history and recounts his experiences from the representation of the facts. In turn, Hunter S. Thompson (HST) is enthroned as the prophet and quintessential gonzo at its best. Without a defined method and a whimsical style, gonzo journalism is associated thematically hand HST is raging on all fronts, with drugs, sex, guns and hallucinations. No journalism school where direct emotions are more important than the search for the vaunted objectivity, mirage of the most trivial purposes. Personalization gonzo journalism , their typing is so heavy in the collective imagination that ignores the confusion lurking behind the label. embedded journalist, investigative reporter, journalist or infiltrated undercover ... can be considered gonzo as is, without doubt, a stream of television reporter from CQC to Michael Moore (The Awful Truth) with their disparate directions, as well as through Samanta Villar 21 days or Morgan Spurlock. And it highlights the profound transition in mood gonzo journalism from the written word to image, especially in the affinities of a reader not too inclined to feel comfortable outside the box lounging style and print journalism, and much more permissive and lenient with the commissioning TV scene.

gonzo journalism, at least under this label, there is pooling at the time of The New Journalism that raised quite a few blisters on the 60. And no one takes him as far as journalistically correct as Hunter S. Thompson.


Where? Who? How? The term gonzo , elusive meaning was first used by the editor Bill Cardoso, the Boston Globe article describing The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved HST, written in June 1970 for S Canlas's Monthly, a publication of short life and investigated by the FBI during the Nixon administration, famous obsession with HST. In this monthly magazine, flagship of investigative reporters in the wake of the tradition of the muckrakers, HST was able to publish a large number of reports later in the book Gonzo Papers, Vol.1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Time, collection of articles written in the sixties and early seventies for various magazines and publications. However, would this article, ironically on everything but the Kentucky Derby, which has been associated as the cornerstone of gonzo journalism. "Pure Gonzo Journalism," said Cardoso, and Thompson validated. The interpretations of the term are diverse. According to Cardoso, comes from the Scottish slang (informal vocabulary and striking) and would become something like the last man left standing after a marathon of alcohol. Other sources attribute the term to a song by James Broker, eccentric pianist from New Orleans. Regardless of first use of the term, related or not, gonzo journalism is inevitably associated with the figure of U.S. writer and journalist. It is even common for the transmutation of bonzo gonzo and listen or read: "It has been burned to gonzo." Although incorrect, because the correct usage is bonzo, in relation to the Vietnamese Buddhist monks (Thich Quang Duc) who protested by burning alive, gonzo journalism HST and others also implies a personal incineration, both physically and mentally in many cases .


Returning to the Genesis story of what came to be called gonzo journalism , The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved is a good example of the virtues and defects of a reportorial style more importantly indifferent to objective journalism . The coverage of the derby is a mere excuse. What is important are the experiences of HST, escorted by the brilliant illustrator Ralph Steadman, his eccentric and incendiary behavior, while the story fades into a singular focus on more concerned with impressing that report. what in any other context would interpreted as a journalist with a foot out of writing, for coverage irresponsible and suicidal, with HST becomes cranky and spoiled a story about the depravity and the atmosphere surrounding the derby, a vision that breaks with the agenda-setting a wild and alien to all discourse. The apparent nonchalance and volatility is also reflected in the net action. Without a coherent story, HST start page of your notebook, the numbers, the surface rewrites, adds some glosses and sends everything to the magazine. Et voilà!

I could barely see him. My eyes were swollen almost shut and the sudden burst of sunlight through the door left me stunned and helpless like a sick mole. Steadman was mumbling about sickness and terrible heat; I fell back on the bed and tried to focus on him as he moved around the room in a very distracted way for a few moments, then suddenly darted over to the beer bucket and seized a Colt .45. “Christ,” I said. “You’re getting out of control".

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved . Thompson, Hunter S. Gonzo Papers, Vol 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. Simon and Schuster

Also, reviewed the birth date is the result of lazy chained term gonzo to HST. Just as not all infants already have a name, the labeling of the formula gonzo should be associated more to a baptism not a birth. Terry Southern, for example, wrote a series of reports prior to HST already laid the foundations of gonzo journalism. Twirling at Ole Miss and Recruiting for the Big Parade are two good examples, compiled in the book The rich marijuana other flavors. Also, George Orwell, in the footsteps of Jack London ( People of the Abyss) , wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (Out in Paris and London, 1933). In his first novel, autobiographical heavyweight, Orwell recounted his experiences as a hobo, his blunt and intemperate struggle for survival. The list of precursors can be long ( Kisch or Bly, for example) if you are looking for writers and journalists who have launched into the adventure with the purpose of telling, not only through personal experience , but also a Stroke first person journalism. In the fall catchall character works countless memoirs ( Papillon by Henri Charrière ), not in vain gonzo journalism literature is part of the self, while the season with investigative journalism , and will pour documentation and interpretative information on their gala days.