This is an excellent article. Once point it missed out was the fact that books (nonfiction and fiction) have really compensated for the lack of investigative journalism, especially in the case of the Iraq War, albeit in a less timely fashion than newsprint and internet reporting. I do think the essence of the old model of journalism needs to be retained, that is, the drive for hard facts and the application of genuine analysis to both the truth and the framework that it rests within. If nonprofits want to step forward to wrestle with that, I am all for it. But I think the network afforded by the internet needs to be studied further, as its potential for community building (even inadvertently so) really hasn't been tapped yet. The possibilities for genuine reportage are simply unknown, but I think training of citizen journalists, with its own kind of networking, is one strong answer.
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This is an excellent article. Once point it missed out was the fact that books (nonfiction and fiction) have really compensated for the lack of investigative journalism, especially in the case of the Iraq War, albeit in a less timely fashion than newsprint and internet reporting. I do think the essence of the old model of journalism needs to be retained, that is, the drive for hard facts and the application of genuine analysis to both the truth and the framework that it rests within. If nonprofits want to step forward to wrestle with that, I am all for it. But I think the network afforded by the internet needs to be studied further, as its potential for community building (even inadvertently so) really hasn't been tapped yet. The possibilities for genuine reportage are simply unknown, but I think training of citizen journalists, with its own kind of networking, is one strong answer.
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