Subject Matter of Lecture Week 1

One of the things that struck me most about the lecture today is that i didn’t realise just how much journalists have to risk in their job. It doesn’t seem so much 9-5 as a lifelong commitment, think entering into the mob. Veronica Guerin, War journalists, these people are giving their careers so much of their lives. I thoroughly enjoyed the parts on Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote concerning New Journalism, as this is a topic we have just recently covered in our creative writing module ‘writing and the world’. Also, in the seminar i thought that bringing up ‘gonzo’ journalism was a very good move as i had no real idea what this was, did anyone else?

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