[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Afx: In your opinion, do you think investigative journalism is anywhere near what it was in the 1960s, 1970s or even 1980s? I’m not asking that as a leading question, I’m genuinely curious as to your opinion.[/quote]

I honestly can’t answer your question because I could only read for about 7 of the 30 years you are asking about, and those 7 years mostly consisted of comic books and Choose Your Own Adventure. 🙂

From what I can gather about the decades you are asking about, your observations about the decline of journalism in general are correct. But I disagree with your argument that blogging isn’t the answer. I see blogging and the Internet in general as the solution, not the problem with journalism. The cream will eventually rise to the top — we’re just currently in the awkward transition period.

The whole “blogging isn’t real journalism” argument has a bit of a “get off my lawn” vibe to it. Is Rich not a real journalist because he has a blog? Piggington is a perfect example of new media picking up the slack where traditional journalism has failed.