That's not gonzo journalism, it's just gonzo

Destroying career of Civil Rights icon was just a distraction

The reporter said she was in a bridal shop trying on her wedding dress when her Smart Phone beeped, she picked it up, and there was the sex abuse story breaking about John Conyers, eighty-five year old black Congressman who was pivotal in the civil rights movement after serving in the Korean War. 
So while being pinned and sized into her gown, the reporter read the 2-3 paragraphs of “breaking news” on her Smart Phone, then she “literally right there in the shop on my phone wrote my report on the story and filed it, right there in the bridal shop.” Or words to that effect.
She did that much research before helping to break the story that destroyed John Conyers’ career. 
She was a black woman. 
That really happened last week. 
Journalism is dead in the USA. 
The excited reporter now was a guest pundit on a TV show because she'd helped break yet another sex abuse story,

Gonzo Journalism is defined as writing your experience writing the story into the story, but first you have to be doing journalism:

Kay Ebeling it was on MSNBC right before I gave up on it too, except Brian Williams.
-ke