Andrew Eklund on today's gonzo journalism and PR

Our good friend Andrew Eklund takes the occasion of Hunter's passing to redefine gonzo for today:

"Today, professional journalism and public relations people are struggling as they wrestle with their own objective filtering of instant news and opinion from the blogs and online message boards. The bloggers are to mainstream news as Hunter S. Thompson was to his editors at Rolling Stone: a stream of consciousness that often contains truth but the paths getting there can often be ridiculous. And too often the ridiculousness of it all prevents mainstream news from finding the truth within the stream of information."

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