We know that doing
an investigate journalism is time consuming and sometimes it required huge
amount of money in order to track the investigation. This process could take up
to months or even years to complete the undercover investigation. There is exceptionally less
investigative journalism being carried out now than there was in the 1980s. The
public’s attention span and support for investigative journalism has shrunk, and
this can be seen by the trend of entertainment and any other lighter stories (Minchin
2001). Investigative journalism is essential, because the citizen
journalist could bring up or sparks on a certain issue which leftover in the
past, it is possibly for a journalist to carry out the investigation which they
believe there is still something left behind which is untold in the report.
Back to the 80s, technology was not that effective comparing to present, the
quality of camera, the video recorder, voice recorder, the convenient in
accessing to the internet, were not the easy back then. Therefore, just because
with the advancement of technology, the cost of those equipment has become an
issue for the people in the newsroom particular, the editor, to decide whether
to continue with investigative journalism in nowadays.
Reference list
1 1. Minchin, L 2001, ‘Digging in the dirt’, Four
Corners, 20 August, viewed 8 October 2012, ABC News
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