What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.