The
author speaks about the "revolution" of the
journalism starting from the decade of 50. Journalists'' that dared to be different speech and they wrote in a much more
literary way, mixing the genres, living with depth and living together with the "characters" of the news.
Highlight for Journalism Gonzo, invented by Hunter Thompson, it proposed the break of what distinguishes the journalism of the fiction: the commitment with the truth. That genre, that is a subcategory of the Literary Journalism, excels for the disobedience to the patterns and it insists on the themes: sex, drugs, sport and politics. The
Hinge Journalist needs to live the
experience and like this, you/he/she ends for interfering in the destiny of the history. The report or rehearsal is usually more focused in the experience that in the fact and small details win exaggerating dimension. Besides, a lot of times the narration is made in first person. Thompson affirms that the hinge, journalist, needs to have a great journalist''s talent, a photographer''s eyes and the action of an actor, in other words, she should live the fact and to moderate him/it while you/he/she is happening.
In the sequence of the book, several goods that the author wrote at that time, it is worthwhile to check these differentiated experiences.
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