Word: thompson
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...taking after Hastert left the post, probably after the next election. But if DeLay is doing any praying in his office these days, it's probably to hold on to the job he has. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi, Hillary Hylton and Mark Thompson/ Washington
...eyewitness to history, his reporting was always dispassionate,” Emmerson said. “He never got on a hobbyhorse, this was not Hunter Thompson, this was real serious journalism...
...Thompson never held himself at arm’s length from his subjects; he bear-hugged them (even the druggies and rapists) and then wrote about it. His journalistic philosophy was rooted in the existential philosophy of Heidegger, who posited the collapse of the subject and object; Doc believed that the observer of a situation necessarily becomes an agent in that situation. He wrote himself into his stories, and gave birth to gonzo journalism. He’s still the only Rolling Stone writer cooler than the cats he wrote about...
Hersh was singularly committed to digging up the truth, to exposing lies. Thompson was committed not only to exposing lies, but to shaming the liar. When he was writing his best—when he was writing about Nixon—he wasn’t a journalist. He was an avenger and an elegist...
Annie M. Lowrey is an Associate Editor for FM. She is sad that Hunter S. Thompson is dead...