The TV business

The original quote which first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner November 4 1985 and later in his book Generation of Swine was this..


The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.


He went on to say.. "Which is more or less true. For the most part, they are dirty little animals with huge brains and no pulse. Every once in a while they will toss up a token human like  Ed Bradley or Edwin Newman or Hughes Rudd…. And there are others , no doubt, like Studs Terkel in Chicago and the twisted Rev. Gene Scott, who works like a sleepless ferret in the manic bowels in Southern California…"


Extract from Thieves and Pimps, by Marty Flynn quoting , Hunter S Thompson Books. See the full article here