Where have you gone Hunter S. Thompson?

I read an article in Rolling Stone about Hunter S. Thompson, with excerpts from an upcoming book on the great 'Gonzo' writers life. I couldn't focus on the finishing the soundtrack for my short film, I had to sit down and read this article.

It made me think,
"What happened to journalists who take chances?"
"What happened to people writing their thoughts, damn what authority says they should write?"
"Why did everything get so politically correct?"

I guess the next generation of America's writers moved onto ‘Dave Eggers and David Sedaris’ type of books and blogs. Is this the last bastion for quality storytelling and unabashed opinions?

You certainly can't get it in the op/ed pages anymore. It seems like those are just made up of rehashing of the same news stories over and over again. How many ways can you spin Michael Vick or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and not come up with the same freakin' point of view?

Why not go into a dog fighting ring and learn about it first hand and then report about it, instead of sitting in your lofty cubicle writing stories based on what others have written?

Can't we have a writer who writes about real life? There are two Americas, what the media tells you versus the real America. Can a mainstream print journalist write how America is in practice, not principle?

If Hunter was alive, I'm sure he would dose these writers with acid, pistol whip them and drag them to a Hell's Angels bar...