Hunter Thompson Dies, CBS News Anchor Field Narrows
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
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(2005-02-21) — With the announcement that columnist and so-called ‘gonzo journalist’ Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide over the weekend, the field of potential replacements for Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News has “narrowed significantly,” according to one network source.
Mr. Thompson, whose stock-in-trade subjectivity and vigorous injection of personal opinion became the template for much of modern journalism, was author of several books including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 and A Generation of Swine. But he was perhaps best known to the elderly as the inspiration for the Doonesbury comic character, Duke.
“Hunter Thompson was a natural to inherit the big desk at CBS,” said the unnamed network source. “Edgy, acerbic and not afraid to weave his political agenda into the story…many viewers would have simply thought that Dan Rather had ditched the toupee.”
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announcement: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/21/thompson.obit/index.html
suicide: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2723492,00.html
subjectivity: http://nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/21hunter.html
Duke: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/thecast/duke.html
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