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Investigative journalism is dead, and with it, the checks and balances that the first amendment was supposed to guarantee.

Soviet-esque silence on important issues doesn't win confidence.

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Investigative journalism is alive and well, though funding sources for it have been changing now that there are less traditional newspapers who can afford to invest heavily in it.

https://www.propublica.org/ is one great example of the non-profit model applied successfully to investigative reporting.

Soviet-esque, but if the party was driven by profit motive, though, right?

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