INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

What ever happened to investigative reporting?

During the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein followed through on every lead and eventually brought down the corrupt "I am not a crook" President Nixon. But today there is no such thing as investigative reporting.

Apparently newspapers and radio and television now all seem to take the easy way out and report whatever the government wants them to report. There is no investigative reporting anymore.

How much ink (as they say in the biz) have you seen about the outing of the CIA, agent Valerie Plame or the many cases of Halliburton's scandalous overcharging of the U.S. government or Bush's pre-screened townhall meetings or the Downing Street Memos or the ongoing lack of armor on the vehicles in Iraq or whatever happened to Osama bin Laden or why doesn't the government seem to care about domestic policies or why the education of our children doesn't seem important anymore or why the country is being controlled by the religious right or why our jobs are being shipped overseas or why our dollar is falling faster than a rock tied to a stone or lying about the reasons for going to war or the fast count we got on both elections or why Bush wants to make more atomic bombs or why the administration disbelieves the studies on global warming or ...

There are smoking guns lying all around, but no one seems interested in following up on any of them.

But you must remember: President Clinton was impeached for kissing a girl and making her cry.

The California Curmudgeon