How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend

Re:How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend by spodek on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:16PM (#14522786)

On Rolling Stone at 50 -- trust being something you can develop over decades and lose in an instant, do others feel like "A Rape on Campus" did in the magazine?

To put on the front page something so sensational yet not fact-checked then soon criticized to show multiple levels of abandoning journalistic practice seems to show a move away from journalism and the public interest in favor of agenda.

Curious how others see it.

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Re:How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend by nooron on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:45PM (#14522989)

I love HST, but a lot of what he wrote in Rolling Stone was not true either. Publishing "A Rape on Campus" was a major error in judgment with very serious and censure-deserving consequences. But RS has never been a magazine to "trust" in the sense you are purporting it once was.

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Re:How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend by delazeur on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:33PM (#14526032)

Yup.

Gonzo: of or associated with journalistic writing of an exaggerated, subjective, and fictionalized style. bizarre or crazy.

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Re:How Hunter S. Thompson Became a Legend by jjtheblunt on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:42PM (#14522959)

agreed

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