Investigative journalism is a dying art.
For media companies, serious reporting is costly, time-consuming, difficult and oftentimes intimidating. In the face of these overwhelming market pressures, mainstream media seems to have every incentive in the world not to pursue investigative stories. When societal injustices are headlined on the front page of the New York Times or broadcast on Primetime, we somehow believe that our democracy has managed to equilibrate itself. We cherish our constitutionally protected free press, our fierce watchdog of the public interest. That is the wave of the future.