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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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.
There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.
Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.
I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.
I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.