Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yeah, I heard it on our newscasts this morning, & remembering the
> thrill of reading Fear & Trembling on the Campaign Trail in Rolling
> Stone, thought again about how much we need someone like him now. But I
> guess lately he hasn't written that way, or only for a much more
> limited venue.
>
> Such voices are necessary, & to lose another, as you said, sad.
Okay, true to the maxim that the only dumb question is the one you don't
ask, I will throw out the question of what has changed in the years
since Thompson first "came up." Is this style of personal journalism
lost or transformed, and if the latter, then into what? I remember as
much corporate lock-step in the middle 1970s as I've run into since.
Perhaps the change has been too subtle (or insidious) to be marked
unless your looking for signs of the times.
ken
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