Sounds and Fury

又是一個反文化世代人物的消逝。
美國著名記者/作家Hunter Thompson 前日在家中舉槍自盡。他是六零年代之子----那個屬於藥物與搖滾樂的世代；而他在七零年代幫滾石雜誌撰寫的報導，成為「New Journalism」的重要人物，更創立了所謂Gonzo Journalism的典範，深深改變一整代年輕人的新聞報導方式。

紐約時報描述他當時的政治報導如何震撼了主流媒體
But it was his writing as a national political reporter for Rolling Stone magazine that brought Mr. Thompson's rule-breaking style to a broader audience, where his outrageous voice helped refocus the nation's customarily straitlaced political dialogue. It was while covering the primary race and the presidential campaign between George McGovern and the incumbent Richard M. Nixon in 1972 that Mr. Thompson forced mainstream news organizations to take notice. That year, some of his most acerbic lines were quoted in publications like Newsweek and The New York Times.

他說他的新聞觀是
"I don't get any satisfaction out of the old traditional journalist's view - 'I just covered the story. I just gave it a balanced view,'"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon. How can you be objective about Clinton?" In Thompson's work there is frequently a distorted viewpoint brought on by the author's consumption of drugs and alcohol (usually recorded in the article for posterity).


紐約時報甚至認為他是Blog新聞的前鋒：
Yet his early work presaged some of the fundamental changes that have rocked journalism today. Mr. Thompson's approach in many ways mirrors the style of modern-day bloggers, those self-styled social commentators who blend news, opinion and personal experience on Internet postings. Like bloggers, Mr. Thompson built his case for the state of America around the framework of his personal views and opinions.



他最有名的作品是融合了寫實與虛構的反文化作品
•Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (New York, Random House, 1966)
•Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories (New York, Random House, 1971)



延伸閱讀
當我想寫這個消息，就猜inertia可能會寫，結果果然比我快一步。請看對他更瞭解的Inertia
紐約時報有過去對他評論的整理
台灣出版了和剛左概念相關的剛左搖滾