A Comparative Analysis of Armies of the Night and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in Regards to New Journalism

Around the time of the novels publication in the late 1960s, a new literary genre had begun to surface: New Journalism. New Journalism sought to combine the elements of news writing and journalism with the elements of fiction writing. Described as being a form of literature that “engages and excites”, it sought to challenge its readers not only “emotionally” but also “intellectually”. Typically, New Journalism consists of four major characteristics such as

Perhaps the craft technique most unique in new journalism is use of an omniscient narrator, albeit a limited one. In few places do we see this boundary pushed harder than in Wolfe’s The Right

Furthermore, because Mailer was known for his writings about masculinity, the article held more power. The writing had two unique aspects: first, he consciously chose to publicize in a developing gay advocate group, giving the magazine publication major publicity. Secondly, a reflection of his own ignorance that permeates across American society. He described how he struggled with rethinking his initial impression of homosexuals, and after much examination, he concluded that they posed no actual threat to society. In fact, they may even possess intellects that are unique (Escoffier 483). Although Mailer found his essay to be one of the worst he had ever written, he later republished them anyway. This allowed more attention for the gay community, and his action also said a lot about his character, and perhaps the reason he protected his gay brothers was so he could demonstrate another side of his

Journalist, Norman Mailer, in his essay, “The Death of Benny Paret”, describes his firsthand account of the beatdown, and ultimate death of the professional boxer. Mailer’s purpose is to integrate a logical, formative description of the events that took place with his emotional reaction to witnessing the profound death of a man who he supported and revered. He adopts an excited tone, which fluctuates throughout the piece and eventually turns somber, and somewhat bitter, in order to both inform and to channel the emotional rollercoaster he experienced on this night to his audience.

Furthermore, In Warshow’s review of E.B White and the New Yorker, experience again is at the forefront of his critique, along with a bit of his ever present political views. He makes a very important point at the begging of this review, “The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it.” (warshow 2001, 75) This becomes an interesting argument, even today, as we think about what trends we have seen in popular culture. Do we ever ask ourselves if this is something that has been prescribed to us, instead of by us? Journalism, especially from writers of a certain stature, can often dictate where the culture shifts. If we are able to look at the writing with an objective eye then we are simply learning about another facet of the experience. All to often, though, it is hard for us to be objective. This could be why we, as Americans, have popular culture at all. A journalist tells us what is cool, and we subscribe to that idea as an entire culture. There are always outliers, but when talking about popular culture most Americans are in it for the collective effervesces. I think this point would be highly debated by Warshow. As he says at the end of this review, unable to keep his political feelings at bay, “The purpose of this writing is not to say anything about democracy …but only to arouse certain familiar responses in the liberal middle-class reader.” (warshow 2001,78)

1) Title of Book: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 2) Author: Tom Wolfe 3) The grounds on which Thomas Wolfe created this documentation of the Merry Pranksters is that he attempts to re-create both the mental and physical atmosphere of their adventure and exploration across America. 4) Specific evidence in supporting the aforementioned thesis can be found in the “Author’s Note” section of the book but also in the writing style used to develop this masterpiece. Writing in a basic journal style, Wolfe documented the extraordinary life style lived by the Pranksters through personal experiences with them as well as transcribing their adventures that were captured on both film and tape. 5) Tom Wolfe, with his journalist style of transcribing

Few living creators understand the appeal of American history as a trove of story material better than Ken Burns, author of long-form documentaries like Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, who finds that its “good guys have serious flaws and the villains are very compelling.” And though he ostensibly works with only the facts, he acknowledges that “all story is manipulation,” some of it desirable manipulation and some of it not so much, with the challenge of telling the difference falling to the storyteller themselves.

In the 1950s and 60s America, a silent alteration engulfed a generation of young reporters and writers which came to be known as New Journalism. Journalism that blended fiction with fact and had the likes of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote committed to its style. Norman Mailer once declared that he "felt that (he) had some dim intuitive feeling that what was wrong with all journalism is that the reporter tended to be objective and that that was one of the great lies of all

Atonement’s chief narrative feature is McEwan’s use of an embedded author—Briony Tallis—whose text is nearly coterminous with the novel itself. This technique is of course not a new one: Sterne’s Sentimental Journey and MacKenzie’s Man of Feeling are both framed as the written accounts of their protagonists. McEwan’s trick in Atonement, though, is presumably that we are to be ignorant of the presence of this embedded author until very close to the end of the book. The chief effect of this is that we are forced to retroactively reconsider our epistemological position vis-à-vis the novel’s characters and its events, a

The author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, where Wolfe would grow up to be an all-star student and athlete at St. Christopher’s Episcopal School for Boys. After his graduation from high school in 1947, Wolfe decided to turn down his admission to Princeton University to attend Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Wolfe majored in English and practiced writing as a sports editor at the college newspaper, while helping to establish a literary magazine, Shenandoah. Wolfe enrolled in Yale University’s American studies doctoral

Even after forty years, Hunter S. Thompson’s creation of gonzo journalism became a new style of writing that remains imitated. Gonzo journalism has many different characteristics; one of the most predominant is

With recent rapid advancements in technology, the majority of Australians now access online news. With the proliferation of fake news sites and hostile online columnists frequently mocking groups of people instead of simply challenging ideas, presenting facts in a neutral way many readers have become disillusioned, no longer being able to recognize whom to trust. As learning journalists and columnists, we need to learn to lift our profession, untie facts from the opinions and maintain fair, inequitable, unbiased ideas and attitudes.

There are many different types of articles: newspaper articles, journal articles, editorial articles, research articles. Each one of these articles target a different audience. The authors takes into account who will be reading their article and how much knowledge he or she has on the topic being discussed. The style of each of these articles depends on the audience. The comprehensibility of a newspaper article will be much greater than a research journal article written by a scientist. The audience has a large impact on the style, structure, word choice, credibility and understanding of different articles.

Journalists should express their ideologies and opinions while covering poverty, however, at the same time they should aim to maintain the objectivity and impartiality standards for effective and truthful and accurate reporting.

I will get an address for you tomorrow. I've just come back from the main production studios I work for, and a very nice Portuguese electronics/video/compression expert, Paulo, spent a lot of time trying to figure out what we can do with all the footage. Good news is that he can use conversions and compression programmes (he writes them himself) that will allow for all our cellphone pics and videos, your pictures and the camcorder's footage to be used in the same editing programme. So though that's fantastic news, the editing won't be as quick as I'd hoped. He will also "clean up" the sound of that midnight concert, so more of it will be usable.