Posts tagged "Hunter S. Thompson"

Bazooko’s Circus

Friday, February 5, 2021

Fear And Loathing at the New York Stock Exchange

There’s this notion that, because their gambling takes place inside the New York Stock Exchange instead of a casino or at a horserace, it’s more respectable, but I don’t entirely buy it.

Fear and Loathing on Fox News

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Fear and Loathing on Fox News

Fox News is an addictive, mind-altering substance, used by its most dedicated viewers to escape reality to a paranoid, fantasy world… Their approach to the news is gonzo journalism’s perverted, evil twin. Instead of using the trappings of fiction to report the truth, Fox uses the trappings of truth to report fiction.

This is Bat Country!

Friday, September 9, 2011

This is Bat Country!

Following the World Trade Center attacks, we’ve seen an explosion in industries that buy and sell fear: private, for-profit militaries like Blackwater and corporate propaganda bullhorns like Fox News have enjoyed terrific windfalls from such camera-friendly human misery, and they’re clearly more than happy to exploit them…

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