Friday, December 7, 2007

Investigative Reporting?

So after watching "All the President's Men" I decided that we may need to revive this type of reporting. Unfortunately, most of today's investigative reporting is to uncover who is sleeping with who? Does this really matter? I mean really I don't really care and it is not adding to society to know this. What these two reporters did, uncover something that actually has an effect on democracy was heroic.

I think that it is important for reporters to do their jobs, report the news without a bias. That means that if they uncover something that the American people have a right to know they should be told, regardless of whether the reporter supports that office holder or not. A reporter should want to tell the story because it is the right thing to do not because it will stick it to the opposing party.

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