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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
News in the age of information: We are often told that the 1________ of the “information 2________” has arrived. The idea is that 3________ work is becoming a more 4________ source of 5________ than 6________. There are already too many 7________ for the number of people who want to buy 8________, so the 9________ in the 10________ need to have a lead 11________ fashion, or technology to 12________ the 13________. You can easily see this 14________ at work in important industries like cars and clothing and computers where big companies prefer to 15________ their 16________ and let 17________ do the less 18________ work of manufacturing the products. But there is a problem with information as an organising principle in 19________. It only counts if people pay 20________ to it. Together with inventors and designers, the information economy needs Public Relations 21________ to make sure 22________ are getting the right 23________. So, faced with the 24________ claims on our attention, organisations in other 25________ have to do more to get their share of it too. So PR people may work for 26________ (then we call them “27________”) or they may work for artists (then we call them “28________” or “pluggers”.) A lot of our news is actually compiled from press releases and reports of events 29________ for journalists. Journalists spend their time, not investigating, but 30________ the words of a spokesperson, publicist or other 31________ propagandist.
Quoting from Evelyn Waugh: The 32________ of news is most clearly 33________ in times of war. A BBC journalist speaking about the present war in Iraq compared his situation with that of the reporters in Scoop, Waugh’s satirical 34________ on the press. In the book, everyone was sure that the real story was happening somewhere else…but they weren’t exactly sure how to get there. Nowadays, the journalist who arrives in the 35________ at the 36________ is almost 37________ a world exclusive. 38________ with 39________ cameras and satellite phones, they can file their story 40________. Which is why the 41________ control the movements of journalists ever more closely.