Going Gonzo

the phrase 'Gonzo journalism' was first used to describe an article by Hunter s. Thompson in 1970. Rather than the retelling of facts, gonzo journalism favours style over accuracy, it uses experiencs and emotion to give context for the story. The style helps journalism to be truthful whilst striving for the objectivity that was seen before the 1960s and 70s. The style was popularized by Tom Wolfe, a reporter for The Washington Post, he favoured a more humorous and fictional-writing techniques in feature length stories. An example of Wolfe's work is The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Its written in narrative with eccentric usage of punctuation and metaphors. This book was just the start of a new wave which was first coined as 'New Journalism' later to be called 'Gonzo journalism'. Wolfe actualy edited a journal named The New Journalism which conatianed works by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson. these articles as a collective were considered as literature. They moved away from the conventional fact orientated works to a more 'story' like structure to them, hence the phrase writing a story for a newspaper.