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Originally Posted by mikephoen
This is fine for most stories, but what about true investigative journalism? Things like Watergate or the Edward Snowden stuff? Or embedded journalists in war torn areas?
Investigative journalism is an important check and balance to Western society. I'm concerned that losing (or even hampering it) it has more consequences than we think.
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I find pieces from sources like Media Lens much more reliable and 'honest' than pieces from mainstream media like CNN.
When an editor from Al Jazeera was being corrected on CNN during a live interview when the USA was invading Iraq, that was my personal epiphany on what 'hard news' and 'mainstream media' are in today's world. Sorry, can't call it the Invasion of Iraq - it is the Liberation of Iraq! See! Look at the country now, so much better! Yay!
The Al Jazeera editor was bang-on when he argued his point that it was 100% an invasion.
You can't have honest and reliable media reported through big media conglomerates any longer. I am sure they fact check and ensure they don't print any liable, but they are not always reporting the 'truth'. That ship has sailed long before the internet took out most of their business.
There are great opinion pieces out there through mainstream media. It is still great for 'let's see what's happening in the world right now'. But it fails completely with informing you as to why this is happening, and what the people in those nations are actually going through. Just search for 'Fallujah birth defects' and "Fallujah uranium tipped ammo', and you open up a window to the world that might shock you, and that mainstream media doesn't want you to know about.
As for the Sports Journalists (and others) affected by these cuts, I can't help but feel sorry for them. I am sure a lot of guys - like George J - poured their heart and soul into what they wrote, and it is always a shock to the system doing what you probably love for decades and have it suddenly end with it not being on your terms. Hopefully they are able to find a place to land on their feet quickly.