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The News Habit

“I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it — a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange, seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures.”

—Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005), journalist, author and grand poobah of gonzo journalism, in A Generation of Swine, 1988. (Thanks to alert WORDster Barbara Kelley)

• Editorial Comment: That wasn’t in the brochure.



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