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ture journalists<br />
Logan Huntzberger<br />
Heir to the Huntzberger legacy, Logan is the<br />
son of a promient newspaper mogul. We<br />
see him as a staff writer at the Yale Daily<br />
News. We see a couple see some cliched<br />
reporter versus editor confrontations,<br />
a staple in many popular culture<br />
interpretations of the world of journalism.<br />
Although we do not see Logan writing many<br />
articles, he challenges main character Rory<br />
to step out of her journalistic comfort zone:<br />
RORY: Look, thanks for the offer, but I’m here as a journalist. An observer. Journalists<br />
do not participate.<br />
LOGAN: Since when?<br />
RORY: Since forever.<br />
LOGAN: George Plimpton never participated.<br />
RORY: What?<br />
LOGAN: His best stuff put him in the think of it. Fighting Sugar Ray Robinson,<br />
quarterbacking for the Lions, skating for the Bruins.<br />
RORY: So he participated.<br />
LOGAN: Bill Buford lived with soccer hooligans in amongst the thugs. Ernie Pyle was so<br />
deep in the action in World War II, he was killed by a Japanese sniper, not that you gotta<br />
go that far.<br />
RORY: Buford, Pyle. I know.<br />
LOGAN: Richard Hottelet was four months in a Nazi prison working for the U.P. Hunter<br />
Thompson lived with the Hell’s Angels. Got in the muck, didn’t just orbit around it, and<br />
it drove his writing. He put you in those biker’s parties. He put you in those biker’s heads.<br />
RORY: All right, all right, so, those guys participated. I got it, but I –<br />
EMCEE: Jumpers to their places, please!<br />
LOGAN: You’re scared.<br />
RORY: Well, yeah!<br />
LOGAN: And that stops the greats?<br />
RORY: It’s stopping this great!<br />
LOGAN: Come on, you look like you need a little adventure.<br />
(Gilmore Girls, S5E7)<br />
FICTION May 2018 13
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