Posts tagged journalism
In the Kingdom
The triumphs and travils of the little kingdom of Camelot
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but I learned at the age of fifteen that to get by you had to find the one thing you can do better than anybody else … at least this was so in my case. I figured that out early. It was writing. It was the rock in my sock. Easier than algebra. It was always work, but it was always worthwhile work. I was fascinated early by seeing my byline in print. It was a rush. Still is.
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I just gotta say as a journalist: CNN knows its coverage of Steubenville isn’t going well. It has to. Why it hasn’t apologized yet is beyond me.
The benefits of being the journalist in the group is that I intercept the drunk fuckers trying to tack in to the group. Unfortunately, that’s also the curse.
Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists?
Amy Davidson chatted about the ethics of drone warfare recently with Michael Walzer, the author of “Just and Unjust Wars”; Jeff McMahan, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers, who has also written about just-war theory; and The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, who is a master on the subject. After Walzer and McMahan suggested some criteria for strikes—criminality, risk of American lives—Davidson asked:
Doesn’t a journalist working abroad who is about to release classified information about a war crime—thus committing a crime—that will provoke retribution or a break with allies—endangering Americans—fit this definition of a target?
A look at their differing views: http://nyr.kr/13hK2Qt
A journalist dealing with heads (Hippies) is caught in a strange dilemma. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism, about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tires to write about them without firsthand experience is a fool and a fraud.
Yet to write from experience is an admission of felonious guilt; it is also a potential betrayal of people whose only crime is the smoking of a weed that grows wild all over the world but the possession of which, in California, carries a minimum sentence of two years in prison for a second offense and a minimum of five years for a third. So, despite the face that the whole journalism industry is full of unregenerate heads just as many journalists were hard drinkers during Prohibition it is not very likely that the frank, documented truth about the psychedelic underworld, for good or ill, will be illuminated at any time soon in the public prints.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Originally published in: The New York Times Magazine, May 14, 1967
I just read this in an article published in Hunters book “The Great Shark Hunt. Gonzo Papers, Volume 1” entitled “The Hashbury Is The Capital Of The Hippies.” Great read.
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My kind of love note #partylikeajournalist - @priceecheckk- #webstagram
When you want your story moved up to the front page
Similar for editors debating what the front page story should be.
When someone says, ‘The food is ready!’ in the newsroom
I’m all about that journo life.
