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Gonzo: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
What Is Gonzo?

‘Gonzo' journalism is what Hunter S. Thompson has been famous for ever since ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' However, ‘ Fear and Loathing' itself is a hybrids- "It's reportage, It's fiction… What is it? It's Gonzo!"
Consulting the nearest dictionary at hand which happens to be the ‘Macquarie Australia's National Dictionary', located near my left foot, Gonzo isn't even mentioned. Not even under the ‘journalism' entry. Wikipedia describes Gonzo as a style of reportage, filmmaking or any form of multimedia production in which the creator is intrinsically enmeshed with the subject action, rather than being a passive observer. The term ‘Gonzo' is often misattributed to Hunter S Thompson, but it was first coined by ‘Boston Globe'
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