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* Sports broadcasts in North America can have their own version in their announcers. Most announcers will at least try to present themselves as neutral, but some will embrace their biased coverage and make it part of their image. A prime example is Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, the now-retired play-by-play announcer for the {{UsefulNotes/Chicago}} [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams White Sox]].
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Gonzo journalism developed during the 1960s, spearheaded by outlaw journalist Creator/HunterSThompson. Thompson wrote very stylized news stories told from the first person perspective (most news stories are written in third person) that were often sarcastic, vulgar and extremely negative of his opposition, including his personal [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]], U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. The UrExample, TropeCodifier, and {{Genre Launch}}er is Thompson's "[[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing The Kentucky Derby]] is Decadent and Depraved", published in the short-lived literary magazine ''Scanlan's Monthly'' in June 1970, documenting his trip to Louisville--his hometown--and the bizarre festival that is the Derby.
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Gonzo journalism developed during the 1960s, spearheaded by outlaw journalist Creator/HunterSThompson. Thompson wrote very stylized news stories told from the first person perspective (most news stories are written in third person) that were often sarcastic, vulgar and extremely negative of his opposition, including his personal [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]], U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. The UrExample, TropeCodifier, UrExample and {{Genre Launch}}er TropeCodifier is Thompson's "[[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing The Kentucky Derby]] is Decadent and Depraved", published in the short-lived literary magazine ''Scanlan's Monthly'' in June 1970, documenting his trip to Louisville--his hometown--and the bizarre festival that is the Derby.
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* Duke in the early years of ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', so much that he's named after Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke. Later in the strip's run he becomes a free-range influence peddler.
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* P.J. O'Rourke is often viewed as the conservative/libertarian counterpart to Thompson, who was staunchly left-wing and sympathized with the [[NewAgeRetroHippie '60s counterculture]]. He does, however, cite Thompson as an influence (along with H. L. Mencken), and [[http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=365 looks favorably on him.]]
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* P. J. O'Rourke is often viewed as the conservative/libertarian libertarian conservative counterpart to Thompson, who was a staunchly left-wing and ''left''-wing libertarian who sympathized with the [[NewAgeRetroHippie '60s counterculture]]. He O'Rourke does, however, cite Thompson as an influence (along with H. L. Mencken), and [[http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=365 looks favorably on him.]]
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** This is more likely to occur with local broadcasts. While the professional leagues and major media networks have agreements to broadcast big games across the US on a regular basis,[[note]]e.g., Creator/{{ESPN}} has ''Sunday Night Baseball'' and ''Series/MondayNightFootball''[[/note]] most professional teams have agreements with local or regional networks to broadcast the vast majority of games that don't get on national TV.[[note]]UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball is the major exception, due to its ''massive'' popularity and relatively fewer games -- once a week for 16 weeks. Compare that with basketball, ice hockey (82 games, 3-4 games a week), and baseball (162 games, a game nearly every day).[[/note]] Consequently, while nationwide telecasts have announcers who will be calling games for different teams week after week (and an announcer with such an obvious bias to one team will alienate a huge chunk of the audience, whether it's fans of the other team or just casual fans), games on local broadcasts will see pretty much the same announcers for the same team being covered and will generally have fans of that particular team as their main audience. After all, if you're going through the effort to find that team on a cable channel or radio, you're more likely to be a loyal fan of that team in general.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': Zeta Vincent is a self-described gonzo journalist who specialises in stories involving ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder, a subject that is ill-suited to being reported on in a ''non''-gonzo fashion, and ends up being caught up in the comic's MythArc after befriending a [[IntellectualAnimal super-intelligent gerbil]]. Turns out this topic also has great relevance to her personal life as well...
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* Tom Wolfe is also seen as a major influence on gonzo journalism, and is considered one of the founders of the broader "New Journalism" movement of the 1960s and 70s, along with Thompson.
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* Sports broadcasts in North America can have their own version in their announcers. Most announcers will at least try to present themselves as neutral, but some will embrace their biased coverage and make it part of their image. A prime example is Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, the play-by-play announcer for the {{UsefulNotes/Chicago}} [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams White Sox]].
** This is more likely to occur with local broadcasts. While the professional leagues and major media networks have agreements to broadcast big games across the US on a regular basis,[[note]]e.g., Creator/{{ESPN}} has ''Sunday Night Baseball'' and ''Monday Night Football''[[/note]] most professional teams have agreements with local or regional networks to broadcast the vast majority of games that don't get on national TV.[[note]]UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball is the major exception, due to its ''massive'' popularity and relatively fewer games -- once a week for 16 weeks. Compare that with basketball, ice hockey (82 games, 3-4 games a week), and baseball (162 games, a game nearly every day).[[/note]] Consequently, while nationwide telecasts have announcers who will be calling games for different teams week after week (and an announcer with such an obvious bias to one team will alienate a huge chunk of the audience, whether its fans of the other team or just casual fans), games on local broadcasts will see pretty much the same announcers for the same team being covered and will generally have fans of that particular team as their main audience. After all, if you're going through the effort to find that team on a cable channel or radio, you're more likely to be a loyal fan of that team in general.
** This is more likely to occur with local broadcasts. While the professional leagues and major media networks have agreements to broadcast big games across the US on a regular basis,[[note]]e.g., Creator/{{ESPN}} has ''Sunday Night Baseball'' and ''Monday Night Football''[[/note]] most professional teams have agreements with local or regional networks to broadcast the vast majority of games that don't get on national TV.[[note]]UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball is the major exception, due to its ''massive'' popularity and relatively fewer games -- once a week for 16 weeks. Compare that with basketball, ice hockey (82 games, 3-4 games a week), and baseball (162 games, a game nearly every day).[[/note]] Consequently, while nationwide telecasts have announcers who will be calling games for different teams week after week (and an announcer with such an obvious bias to one team will alienate a huge chunk of the audience, whether its fans of the other team or just casual fans), games on local broadcasts will see pretty much the same announcers for the same team being covered and will generally have fans of that particular team as their main audience. After all, if you're going through the effort to find that team on a cable channel or radio, you're more likely to be a loyal fan of that team in general.
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** This is more likely to occur with local broadcasts. While the professional leagues and major media networks have agreements to broadcast big games across the US on a regular basis,[[note]]e.g., Creator/{{ESPN}} has ''Sunday Night Baseball'' and''Monday Night Football''[[/note]] ''Series/MondayNightFootball''[[/note]] most professional teams have agreements with local or regional networks to broadcast the vast majority of games that don't get on national TV.[[note]]UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball is the major exception, due to its ''massive'' popularity and relatively fewer games -- once a week for 16 weeks. Compare that with basketball, ice hockey (82 games, 3-4 games a week), and baseball (162 games, a game nearly every day).[[/note]] Consequently, while nationwide telecasts have announcers who will be calling games for different teams week after week (and an announcer with such an obvious bias to one team will alienate a huge chunk of the audience, whether its it's fans of the other team or just casual fans), games on local broadcasts will see pretty much the same announcers for the same team being covered and will generally have fans of that particular team as their main audience. After all, if you're going through the effort to find that team on a cable channel or radio, you're more likely to be a loyal fan of that team in general.
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* ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'': Pretty much the TropeCodifier. A stream-of-conscious novel written by Creator/HunterSThompson in the early 1970s chronicling his experiences covering news stories in Las Vegas. Although ostensibly about his coverage of a motorcycle race and a police convention, Thompson used the setting to criticize what he saw as vile in American culture as well as lament the death of the ideals he and the hippies aspired to, but failed to see realized, in the previous decade.
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* ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'': Pretty much the TropeCodifier. A stream-of-conscious novel written by Creator/HunterSThompson in the early 1970s chronicling his experiences covering news stories in Las Vegas. Although ostensibly about his coverage of a motorcycle race and a police convention, Thompson used the setting to criticize what he saw as vile in American culture as well as lament the death of the ideals he and the hippies aspired to, but failed to see realized, in the previous decade. Interestingly, the book is also an ''aversion'', because, by Thompson's own admission, the original draft was too incomprehensible to be published without editing.
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The style was created entirely because Thompson was a RidiculousProcrastinator who was [[ChristmasRushed up against his deadline]] and, lacking anything to show for his work other than his basic notes on the event, simply started ripping pages out of his notebook and sending them in. The magazine published his first-person notes from the Derby as-is, and thus [[AccidentalArt Gonzo Journalism was born]]. Another Sicties pioneer of the genre was Creator/TomWolfe, who before becoming a satiric novelist penned acid-colored articles like "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!!"
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The style was created entirely because Thompson was a RidiculousProcrastinator who was [[ChristmasRushed up against his deadline]] and, lacking anything to show for his work other than his basic notes on the event, simply started ripping pages out of his notebook and sending them in. The magazine published his first-person notes from the Derby as-is, and thus [[AccidentalArt Gonzo Journalism was born]]. Another Sicties Sixties pioneer of the genre was Creator/TomWolfe, who before becoming a satiric novelist penned acid-colored articles like "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!!"
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The style was created entirely because Thompson was a RidiculousProcrastinator who was [[ChristmasRushed up against his deadline]] and, lacking anything to show for his work other than his basic notes on the event, simply started ripping pages out of his notebook and sending them in. The magazine published his first-person notes from the Derby as-is, and thus [[AccidentalArt Gonzo Journalism was born]].
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born]]. Another Sicties pioneer of the genre was Creator/TomWolfe, who before becoming a satiric novelist penned acid-colored articles like "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!!"
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* Creator/MichaelMoore's documentaries have elements of this, with their [[AuthorTract extremely obvious left-wing perspective]], and Moore's willingness to involve himself in the story being covered to make a point and/or a joke. A memorable example from ''Film/{{Sicko}}'' happened when, apparently to confuse his opponents through cognitive dissonance, he anonymously paid the medical bills of one of his most vocal real-life critics so he could afford to keep his anti-Moore site running.
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--> "Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city's most expensive and select community. Being a bastard ''works''."
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** This is more likely to occur with local broadcasts. While the professional leagues and major media networks have agreements to broadcast big games across the US on a regular basis,[[note]]e.g., {{ESPN}} has ''Sunday Night Baseball'' and ''Monday Night Football''[[/note]] most professional teams have agreements with local or regional networks to broadcast the vast majority of games that don't get on national TV.[[note]]UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball is the major exception, due to its ''massive'' popularity and relatively fewer games -- once a week for 16 weeks. Compare that with basketball, ice hockey (82 games, 3-4 games a week), and baseball (162 games, a game nearly every day).[[/note]] Consequently, while nationwide telecasts have announcers who will be calling games for different teams week after week (and an announcer with such an obvious bias to one team will alienate a huge chunk of the audience, whether its fans of the other team or just casual fans), games on local broadcasts will see pretty much the same announcers for the same team being covered and will generally have fans of that particular team as their main audience. After all, if you're going through the effort to find that team on a cable channel or radio, you're more likely to be a loyal fan of that team in general.
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* P.J. O'Rourke is often viewed as the conservative/libertarian counterpart to Thompson, who was staunchly left-wing and sympathized with the [[NewAgeRetroHippie '60s counterculture]]. He does, however, cite Thompson as an influence (along with H. L. Mencken), and [[http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=365 looks favorably on him]].
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* The protagonist of Bryan Young's ''Lost at the Con'' is a self-declared gonzo journalist, usually on the political beats, who gets sent to cover [[FanConvention Griffin*Con]][[note]]A thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of [=DragonCon=][[/note]]. At first he's very disparaging of the con and the kind of people who go there (both fans and guests) [[spoiler:but eventually winds up defending them against the kind of {{Jerk Jock}}s who pick on people that just want to have fun and be themselves]].
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* The protagonist of Bryan Young's ''Lost at the Con'' is a self-declared gonzo journalist, usually on the political beats, who gets sent to cover [[FanConvention Griffin*Con]][[note]]A Griffin*Con]].[[note]]A thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of [=DragonCon=][[/note]]. At first he's very disparaging of the con and the kind of people who go there (both fans and guests) [[spoiler:but eventually winds up defending them against the kind of {{Jerk Jock}}s who pick on people that just want to have fun and be themselves]].themselves.]]
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* [=McDougal=] from ''The Paper'' qualifies. Of course, the enemy he demonizes is the parking commissioner.
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* [=McDougal=] from ''The Paper'' qualifies.Paper''. Of course, the enemy he demonizes is the parking commissioner.
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* The protagonist of Bryan Young's ''Lost at the Con'' is a self-declared gonzo journalist, usually on the political beats, who gets sent to cover [[FanConvention Griffin*Con]][[note]]A thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of DragonCon[[/note]]. At first he's very disparaging of the con and the kind of people who go there (both fans and guests) [[spoiler:but eventually winds up defending them against the kind of {{JerkJock}}s who pick on people that just want to have fun and be themselves]].
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* The protagonist of Bryan Young's ''Lost at the Con'' is a self-declared gonzo journalist, usually on the political beats, who gets sent to cover [[FanConvention Griffin*Con]][[note]]A thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of DragonCon[[/note]]. [=DragonCon=][[/note]]. At first he's very disparaging of the con and the kind of people who go there (both fans and guests) [[spoiler:but eventually winds up defending them against the kind of {{JerkJock}}s {{Jerk Jock}}s who pick on people that just want to have fun and be themselves]].