If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike Royko, who just died. I. F. Stone was not objective. Mark Twain was not objective. I don't quite understand this worship of objectivity in journalism. Now, just flat-out lying is different from being subjective.


Interview in The Atlantic Monthly (17 September 1997)

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike...

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike...

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike...

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike...