[phiy]

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.

[simonw]

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.

[pohl]

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