Wenner, who was not only Thompson’s editor for more than three decades, but his friend, also includes personal letters the two exchanged, as well as notes and inter-office memos from Thompson (or his alter-ego at the Sports Desk, Raoul Duke) to other writers and staff at Rolling Stone. Bush and John Kerry presidential campaigns in 2004. Thompson, editor Jann Wenner and Paul Scanlon (managing editor at Rolling Stone during several of the years covered, ehre) have collected and compiled Thompson’s articles for Rolling Stone, beginning with stories covering Thompson’s own run for the office of sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1970, and continuing right up through his final piece on the George W. In Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson began writing for Rolling Stone magazine, he had already developed his distinct voice and highly recognizable style, which involved inserting himself and everything going on around him into his stories. The Campaign Trail: The Million-Pound Shithammer, 3 February 1972īy the time Hunter S. The phrase itself is a gross contradiction in terms.” With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here-not under any byline of mine or anyone else I can think of.
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