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16 Id.
17 Id. at 51.
18 Didion. supra note 3. at xi.
,<>Id. at xii.
20 Id. at xiii-xiv.
21 A term used by David Eason, a Middle Tennessee State University mass
communication professor, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on N ew Journalism and
has a national reputation for his research in this area.
22 Id.
23 Didion, supra note 3, at xii.
24 Id. at 84.
25 Id. at 98.
26 Id. at 145.
27 Id. at 146.
28 Id. at 144.
20 Joan Didion, The White Album (N ew York: Simon & Schuster, 1979): 11-13.
30 Id. at 13.
31 Didion interviewed Kasabian in 1970 at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women in Los
Angeles. Oil pages 4 2 -4 4 o f The White Album , Didion describes her dread at entering the
prison, and how the interviews with Kasabian proved to be a haunting experience: “This
particular juxtaposition o f the spoken and the unspeakable was eerie and unsettling, and
made my notebook a litany o f little ironies so obvious as to be o f interest only to
dedicated absurdists. An example: Linda dreamed o f opening combination restaurantboutique and pet shop.”
32 Id. at 47.
33 Tom W olfe, The Kandv-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1965): xv.
34 Id.
35 Id. at xvi-xvii.
36 In The Kandv-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, see, respectively, “The Last
American Hero”; “Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can’t Hear You! Too Noisy) Las
Vegas!!!"; “The Marvelous Mouth”; “The N ew Art Gallery Society”; and “The Saturday
Route."
37 Id. at xix.
38 Id. at xviii.
3QId. at 13.
40 Id. at 18.
41 See pages 351-52 o f Douglas A. Anderson and Bruce D. Itule’s Contemporary7News
Reporting (N ew York: Random House, 1984), for a discussion o f the Code o f Ethics
designed by the Society o f Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, in particular the
section dealing with accuracy and objectivity. According to the code, “sound practice
makes clear distinction between news reports and expressions o f opinion.”
42 Wolfe, supra note 33, at 77.
43 Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Bantam, 1968): 256-272.
44 Wolfe, supra note 5, at 204.
45 Wolfe, supra note 43, at 256.
46 Wolfe, supra note 5, at 172.
47 Id.
48 Id.