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The Fall of Investigative Journalism

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The Backcountry BC Experience - The Fall of Investigative Journalism
As we at BCBC continue to take on more of an investigative journalism type of role and approach to our work, I have noticed that the official media are doing far less of it.
When we approach journalists for publication, we now present a fully researched position, since journalists seem to have far less time and resources to perform investigative work these days. It also seems that they are the first to be fired as a cost saving measure.
Opinion Editorial writers are cheap by comparison, and so in an age of the rapid decline of traditional media, the traditional investigative journalist is quickly becoming an over-priced phantom of the past.
Did the fourth estate fly too close to the sun?
So now, in 2019, who is there to hold corrupt politicians, ministries, bureaucrats and corporatists to account?
I personally didn't think investigative work such as this would ever become the responsibility of citizens such as us (BCBC).
Icarus is falling.
We are trying to keep him airborne for as long as we can, but the ocean is getting closer, and I fear that we may soon all drown.