The New Journalism
Everything
in the world was changing, and journalism was reflecting this
Television
was overtaking radio, seeing rather than telling,
Photo/magazine
journalism was overtaking traditional newspapers – seeing rather than telling
This was
clearly the trend. Popular journalism was having to become more subjective –
possibly due to a divided world. People had to report things exactly as they
saw them. Individuals actions became important. John McCine rolling stone
magazine. Visual generally becoming more popular.
Freudian
agenda, sexual liberation, women becoming more powerful, reflecting the
zeitgeist.
Heidegger
– existentialism. Just being was popular, past full of guilt – living for the
moment. Camus- The outsider – telling things how they are and not getting
dragged down by being human with feelings and all that nonsense. Living for the
moment epitomised by Woodstock – sex drugs roick and roll – fear and loathing
in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson.
Nietzsche
suggesting that rape and violence are not immoral, all just part of a big power
struggle when all is set and done.
Journalists
feeling the need to write copy that reflected the times.
LSD apparently
introduced by the CIA to create an altered reality, what was clearly a
difficult time for many people. People wanting to experience an different
perception of themselves and of the world.
Breaking
the rule of – never become the story
Counter
culture – people experimenting with drugs and sex. – teen preggers – sticking it
to the man
Dickens –
realist fiction
Scene by
scene construction
Dialogue
in full
Third
person
Status
details – make things important – eg if talking about the pm showing him up to be posh, note the exact brand and price of the tie he is wearing, counter
that with the person he is helping to open a youth centre. – Social Autopsy
HIPPIES
Blurring
of objectivity and subjectivity
Realism
LGBT
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