Tag: Jann Wenner
Posted on Sat Nov 03, 2007 at 10:50:00 PM EST
Tags: hunter s. thompson, HST, Anita Thompson, Jann Wenner (all tags)
Rolling Stone Magazine is turning 40. It just released its first digital issue. I was a teenager when it first came out and read it religiously. I subscribed for years. I still read it from time to time.
So, it's painful for me to see there's been a brouhaha in the media this week about Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour's biography of Hunter Thompson. For a quick recap, check out:
- This NY Daily News article
- The LA Times Review which really hurt Hunter's wife, Anita Thompson
- This Washington Times article defending Hunter's later writing and Anita
- Anita responding on her Owl Farm Blog.
I'm not going to slam Wenner's book, I haven't read the whole thing -- just the 8 pages of excerpts in Rolling Stone last month, which I read on an airplane and enjoyed. Even Anita says there's some good stuff in the book.
But Anita very much disagrees with Wenner's characterization of Hunter (see the LA Times review)at the end of his life, his criticism of Hunter's ESPN reporting and the impression he gives that Hunter did nothing worthwhile after leaving Rolling Stone.
On Hunter's ESPN reporting, his activism and the impact he made during the final years of his life, I feel qualified to weigh in and I'm going to side strongly with Anita (and not just because she's my friend.)
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