Thompson on the radio
Posted on | November 21, 2008 |
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.
–Hunter S. Thompson
My favorite man to quote, this I found pasted in a window of the KPFA offices. Only, the one I saw reads: “The radio business is a cruel . . . It also has a negative side.”
I found out that he didn’t say that. The exact quote is about TV, and I think it more fitting. Also, the last line is funny, but not Thompson. Someone else added that later.
The original quote was published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1985. People have changed the quote to be radio, corporate communications, music and show business. Insert what you’d like.
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