But his opinions of journalism in particular he held and proselytized with especial zest - what it is and what it ought to be, what pretensions it could use to divest and what moral obligations it should at all costs uphold. Thompson, in fact, was characteristically unafraid of vocalizing his opinions as a keen observer of and lively, if not hedonistic, participant in culture.
Thompson (July 18, 1937–February 20, 2005) endures as the godfather of “gonzo journalism” - that once-radical, now-ubiquitous style of New Journalism that does away with claims of capital-O objectivity and instead inserts the author into the story as an active first-person narrator. An iconoclastic hero of the written word, Hunter S.
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