{"id":48,"date":"2008-07-22T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-07-22T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:44:03","slug":"gone_gonzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/07\/gone_gonzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Gonzo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hunter S. Thompson was a twisted sort of role model for me to have had back when I was still wide-eyed Molly Sheridan, cub reporter, and I find that there’s really not a lot of call for that kind of journalism (other than how to tip a whiskey bottle) now that my beat is the new music field.<\/p>\n

But maybe there should be. There are plenty of musicians around who could provide the “say what?<\/a>” and Quentin Tarantino could provide the composer-associated profanity<\/a>. Yes, hyperbole, but instead of navel-gazing op-eds detailing the end of civilization as evidenced by the death of the newspaper critic–seriously, who knew a chair at the obit desk was the critic’s heart’s desire?–maybe it’s time to get not a new topic, but a new angle on the proposition.<\/p>\n

Greg Sandow has been writing a lot about how a rock vs classical critic<\/a> tackles the live concert review, which has provided ample it-doesn’t-have-to-be-this-way food for thought, and AJ’s own fearless leader, Doug McLennan, has certainly embraced the show-don’t-tell model<\/a> of change.<\/p>\n

The inbox delivers up plenty of enquiring-minds material–many of them topics I wish there was more time to explore in summer road trip fashion and at book-length word count if only there were no need to pay the electric bill. But though that may be what the writer desires, what does the reader seek? In a digital landscape where (setting aside copyright concerns for a moment) content presentation is wildly open to fresh reformation, what do cultural consumers want from their media about media? Is the concert review, the cd review, and the once-in-a-while profile piece really all there is? What would gonzo arts reporting be and what might it do for the place?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Doug has also posted\u00c2\u00a0some deep thoughts<\/a> in response to\u00c2\u00a0Martin Bernheimer’s recent “arts criticism was killed by the blogger on the Internet” essay in the Financial Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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