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An account of Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, with particular reference to gonzo journalism, the Watergate scandal, and the death of liberalism in relation to McGovern.
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is probably one of the best-known examples of the gonzo journalism of the 1970s, and it is difficult to fully appreciate Thompsons perspective
on the political events of 1972 without first looking briefly at the phenomenon of gonzo journalism itself, often wrongly dismissed as "crazy", or as a licence for journalists to dispense
with accuracy and write what they pleased. Certainly, the fact that drug use was invariably associated with the gonzo media had a great deal to do with this perception, but
it was not quite as unstructured and undisciplined as its critics assert. In
fact, gonzo journalism was a form of Tom Wolfes "New Journalism", which he declared had replaced the novel: it was a type of creative non-fiction which blended the reporting of
fact with the techniques of fiction writers. Rather than aiming for total objectivity (an impossible aspiration in any case, since all perception is subjective) the reporter was the journalistic equivalent
of sociologys "participant observer" - the researcher who immerses himself directly in the culture which he is researching.
The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so
on, which lend credibility and immediacy to the writing, and have an emotional as well as an intellectual impact on the reader. The transmission of factual information is made more
appealing by the style and context of the transmission itself, and the connection created between writer and reader. Thompson did not merely speculate about what it might be like to
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