About 4 months before his death I was lucky enough to have a few drinks with Hunter. Whilst pecking at a slice of pizza and a handful of drinks his mobile phone starts ringing. He takes it out of his pocket, stares at it.. then just drops it on the floor
'I hate that shit...' he muttered.
Not a man of technology...
Politics , yes [sex, drugs] . Music, yes [ rock and roll]. Technology - no..
Not medium for gonzo journalism.
I work for the British national press and, although it saddens me to say it, the last thing journalism needs right now is more people humping the 'gonzo' thing. There are so many kids out there who think that any thing that crawls into their ADD ridden brain is 'gonzo' and therefore worthy of print. Well, it's not. It's just verbal vomit.
In the current media climate, what journalism needs is FACTS backed up by well researched and thought out opinion. Not ten million myspace blogs.
Anyway, that's my 2c.
Cheers
Rob
PS : in my humble opinion, Matt Taibbi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi] is doing an excellent job are carrying on the beat/gonzo thing.. check out his article in the Stone on Iraq [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/106871 89/fort_apache_iraq/] . It's well researched and well written..
PPS: if this post doesn't deserve a modding up - I don't know what the hell does..
Also, my nickname was chosen years ago - before becoming a journalist. (to stop the trolls calling me a hypocrite;) )
"[The theorist] Lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body (reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the mother or primary caregiver) produces a psychic response that gives rise to the mental representation of an "I"."
Hopefully watching the creation of a new consciousness (an "I") would give us an insight to why we are all so horribly messed up.
We might also get to see a robot with an Oedipus complex - disturbing and incredibly hard to fix...
Slashdot Mirror
well said!
Yeah, it totally crashed my Xbox - made it utterly unplayable...
I then tried it in my Xbox 360 and it worked a treat
Touché!
'I hate that shit...' he muttered.
Not a man of technology ...
Politics , yes [sex, drugs] . Music, yes [ rock and roll]. Technology - no ..
Not medium for gonzo journalism.
I work for the British national press and, although it saddens me to say it, the last thing journalism needs right now is more people humping the 'gonzo' thing. There are so many kids out there who think that any thing that crawls into their ADD ridden brain is 'gonzo' and therefore worthy of print. Well, it's not. It's just verbal vomit.
In the current media climate, what journalism needs is FACTS backed up by well researched and thought out opinion. Not ten million myspace blogs.
Anyway, that's my 2c.
Cheers
Rob
PS : in my humble opinion, Matt Taibbi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi] is doing an excellent job are carrying on the beat/gonzo thing.. check out his article in the Stone on Iraq [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/106871 89/fort_apache_iraq/] . It's well researched and well written..
PPS: if this post doesn't deserve a modding up - I don't know what the hell does.. Also, my nickname was chosen years ago - before becoming a journalist. (to stop the trolls calling me a hypocrite ;) )
in YEARS? sounds like you should stop reading slashdot...
"as a minister in a military town I saw way too many women who would fall into adultery when their husband was away for months at a time"
Goddamnit! I told them not to tell anyone!
Iowa gets free WiFi.
"[The theorist] Lacan proposes that human infants pass through a stage in which an external image of the body (reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the mother or primary caregiver) produces a psychic response that gives rise to the mental representation of an "I"."
read the rest @ - http://maven.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/lacan/ terms/mirror.html
Hopefully watching the creation of a new consciousness (an "I") would give us an insight to why we are all so horribly messed up. We might also get to see a robot with an Oedipus complex - disturbing and incredibly hard to fix...
Rob