New Journalism was a style of writing that came about in the 1960's and 1970's. It tend to throw the conventional rules of being fast accurate a fair.... because this was simply boring and boring hides the truth. The main two leaders of this writing style were that of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson...who were both on drugs!
One of the techniques in which Wolfe used was that of observation, where he would simply observe and show what he was seeing though his eyes.
Does this still happen today ? Of crouse it does especially in documentaries but not so much in news. If you look at journalists such as Louis Theroux, in all his documentaries he appears on camera a lot, everything we see is what Louis sees and therefore being Louis opinion. Says it how it is.
I too like to adopt this New journalism writing style except I do not really write. I like to people watch, observe peoples lives. I like to call this people watching. Is that really new journalism ? Probably not and probably unrelated but hey ho, it filled another couple of lines!
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