Hunter Thompson Quote
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 5:17pm.

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.... Mainly we are dealing with a profoundly degenerate world, a living web of foulness, greed and treachery . . . which is also the biggest real business around and impossible to ignore. You can't get away from TV. It is everywhere. The hog is in the tunnel."

--Hunter S. Thompson

This quote shows up a lot and some person who perhaps considers themselves very sophisticated brings is up again. It's interesting to read but as a guy who works in television news I'm sorry I just don't see anything he said translates into the real world of broadcast journalism.

"degenerate world", "foulness", "greed", "treachary". In fact everywhere I've worked has been staffed by middle and lower middle class people working hard.

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