What is Gonzo journalism?

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What is Gonzo journalism?

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I feel that just saying “it is written from the author’s viewpoint” is insufficient.

Is “Down and out in London and Paris” gonzo journalism? Or the book by that German journalist who disguised himself as a Turkish “gastarbeiter”?

Hunter Thompson invented the term to describe his own work. But maybe the comment that said his “Fear and loathing in Las Vegas” (a drug-driven fever dream) is *not* gonzo journalism is correct.

So the term has outgrown its inventor.