Hunter S. Thompson (attributed US father of Gonzo Journalism, journalism often involving first person reportage and without claims of the Mainstream massage of asserted “objectivity”) (1997): "I don't know about history. I don't get any satisfaction out of the old traditional journalist's view -- "I just covered the story. I just gave it a balanced view." Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon. How can you be objective about Clinton? If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective. Mike Royko, who just died. I. F. Stone was not objective. Mark Twain was not objective. I don't quite understand this worship of objectivity in journalism. Now, just flat-out lying is different from being subjective” (Hunter S. Thompson in interview, “Writing on the wall. An interview with Hunter S. Thompson “, The Atlantic , 26 August, 1997: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/graffiti/hunter.htm ; Hunter S. Thompson partially quoted in “Gonzo journalism”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism ).