Written by Tom Fenton,he relays an interesting anecdote.
more than a year before 9/11, when he wanted to go to Afghanistan with his London producer to interview Osama bin Laden, the networks that paid Fenton to report from abroad refused to finance the trip. These same networks, he contends, have downsized to such a degree that investigative journalism is now extinct, news is recycled, packaged, and rebroadcast, and media consolidation has all but destroyed the Fourth Estate. Entertainment, and crass consumerism have eclipsed dignified information-gathering.
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