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What would a new HST look like? Gonzo style journalism kinda already peaked in the 2010s with the wave of blogging and new media like Vice magazine.

HST was revolutionary because he broke the norms of journalism at the time while still making a coherent point. Nowadays journalism is plain broken, the norms are in tatters and the people that would be exposed don't give a shit and feel no shame for the awful things they do. No wonder HST offed himself.

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It looks like Andrew Callaghan & Channel 5.

He was my initial thought too, but I feel like it's very similar to what Vice was doing 20 years ago

Everyone wanted to be gritty in the 2010s and now no one is gritty because of it. I want the opposite now, and have a source with a coherent, reliable voice which I sort of get with the Economist.

Yes, that's exactly it. If people want to see what breaking the norms is today, it would be, I don't know because I wasn't alive then, Walter Cronkite?

Jim Lehrer was more recent and an excellent voice on a national scale in North America.

Ontario has Steve Paikin who, until very recently, hosted a current affairs show on public television. He is easily in the top 0.0001% of people who can make sense of anything that comes up in the news.

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