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The Lonely Beat Generation: Dawn of The New Journalism

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It is neither self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism, nor intoxicating romanticism that compels us to turn with a renewed passionate interest in learning about and appreciating the origins of the New Journalism. Our present world of public discourse has taken rigidly hostile polarized constructs of traditional Main-Stream Media versus the contemporary incarnation of New Media. However, while the former has long been understood to focus largely upon the accumulation of power and wealth, the same has come to be the goal of new media organizations. In fact, present-day new media organizations are made even more repugnant by their petty, envy-based sarcastic commentaries and idolatry of faux-celebrity life. Further, whatever their seeming differences, both forms of media share in the adherence to vicious levels of social and political ideology, which strongly bias and distort the communications and news presented to the public.

The origins of New Journalism are examined here through a review of the pioneering contributions of the inner-circle of The Beat Generation writers, who included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso. The commentary is further expanded and enriched by stunning vintage photographs, a remarkable slide show of additional vintage images and six documentary films.

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