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Pros And Cons Of Muckraking

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In May 2017, the private broadcast Mega revealed that the Chilean socialist party has been investing billions of dollars in national and international companies in order to maintain and enlarge the party’s assets . Indeed, the explosive story explained in detail the strategies and financial instruments that Salvador Allende’s party has been using in the last 13 years. In its official statement, the party argues that it was the best way to guarantee its financial independence from what McChesney and Nichols (2013) have denominated “dollarocracy”. Nonetheless, the controversy triggered by the TV report was twofold: In one hand, it exposed the ideological contradiction of a leftist party acting as a shareholder and, in the other hand, it brought …show more content…

Overall, I disentangle the complex ways of consecration, distinction, and recognition in the particular field of watchdog reporting. Doing so, the research aims to craft a situated conceptualization of investigative journalism in a post-authoritarian society and problematize hegemonic conceptualizations coined in most stable democracies, more consolidated media systems, and within thicker fields of IJ.
Particularly, I argue that investigative journalism in a post-authoritarian regime simultaneously performs both as a regulatory mechanism and a transgressor role in a neoliberal society. Doing so, investigative journalism serves (either unconsciously or consciously) hegemony at the same time it is contributing to produce, provide, and spread public, valuable, information. The watchdog role of journalism would operate as a controlled leakage, as the tolerated transparency that neoliberalism itself allows in order to survive. This project inquiries into these entangled connections, acknowledging their …show more content…

To do so, I propose a close reading of its practices and products, identifying the particular emphasis regarding larger political, cultural, and organizational epochal conjunctures. Therefore, any notion of what investigative journalism signifies since the 1990s in Chile becomes more a process than a static object of research. Theoretical concepts coined in contexts different than those I am investigating are certainly suitable to understand local or regional problems as a part of global trends, but it is necessary to frame these phenomena in a local fashion because cultural production and its performance are embedded in their own

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The tradition begun by the journalists in Jensen’s book still continues today. Greg Palast is one such journalist who is following in the footsteps of the muckrakers. He has been called the “most important investigative reporter of our time” by The Guardian and has been responsible for writing front page stories for influential news outlets such as “BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone and Harper's Magazine”. His area of expertise is corporate fraud and he has gone undercover to conduct his investigations on five continents. He is responsible for writing influential stories such as “BP's Deepwater Horizon blow-out”, the U.S. role in the coup against Hugo Chavez, Enron’s attempt to buy favors from the British government, and the U.S. Presidential election theft in 2000 in

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The lecture started with Sonia talking about what brought her to become journalist and some of the important stories in her life. She started by talking about growing up in Argentina and how becoming a journalist was going to be a way to advocate for her country. A little later in her lecture Sonia discussed how she came to realize that you cannot be an advocate and a journalist. She discussed how lack of political opinion was best when being a journalist and lack of political opinion is what made Enrique’s journey a better story.

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Stories are no longer respectable and virtuous as they were at modern journalism’s beginning. Thus, by journalists Fallows and Rothman have named the media as unethical. Another way that modern journalists have transformed today’s media is that the media now relies on the popularity of its stories and articles. Journalist Jack Shafer uses his article, “The Rise and the Fall of the Obama Media Romance” as an example of popular opinion reflecting

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Cohen first places President Donald Trump and his counselor Kellyanne Conway under an examination of credibility. Constantly, Cohen attacks both of these credible people to try and manipulate his audience. Cohen presents these expressions, “fake news” and “alternative facts” to show the audience how President Trump and Conway have, “increased the talk of ‘real’ or ‘fact-based’ journalism.” These details, though small, manipulates Cohen’s intended audience into thinking that Trump and Conway are the sole reason that journalists are continuously attacked for their statements. Thus, creating another dichotomy, as seen in Sullivan’s article, between those manipulated into joining Cohen’s stance and those who believe that some journalists act upon releasing fake or exaggerated news stories.

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In his essay, Goodman lays out his argument about the decline of foreign journalism and a possible solution –crowd sourcing –for increasing the amount of foreign journalism in US media. Citing the power of the internet and social media technology, Goodman proposes enabling the average citizen to collect “testimonials, snap shots, and video clips”as a “genuine reporting tool,”though he also expresses reservations about these developments. To build his argument, Goodman deploys repetition, contrast, and direct appeals to his audiences through his use of we. These rhetorical strategies allow Goodman to call attention to a central contradiction and rally colleagues to this cause.

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Woodward and Bernstein’s investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal became a model of journalism devoid of bias. To sum up, the book 'All the President's Men', by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, is the best illustration of investigative journalism exposing political corruption and revealing the truth, by holding those in power accountable. The writers provide an accurate and unbiased account of the Watergate scandal and their resolutely ethical view of investigative reporters' role in seeking the truth at all costs. Moreover, through reading this book, I have learned the benefits of investigative journalism in our democracy. Its significant role in keeping our government honest and transparent

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One significant point of the foundation of the United States is the freedom of press, and All the President’s Men represents this fundamental right of the media to the core. The reporters in this movie are working against officials in the government, yet they are heroes; they are using their right - a right that is supposed to be guaranteed by the government - to reveal the corruption within it. The media was, and will continue to be the source of information for the average American, and the importance of the accuracy of the news is also a topic explored in the movie. Overall, this movie romanticized journalism, and gave the media a positive

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Pinochet, with the help from the Chicago Boys, began the world’s first experiment with Neoliberalism. The intentions of neoliberalism in Chile as a political and economic movement were to restore the power of the elites and to dismantle the Welfare State of the previous Keynesian era. David Harvey in A Brief History of Neoliberalism asserts that neoliberalism could only have displaced embedded neoliberalism through the use of force such as through military power in Chile (Harvey pg. 40). Harvey discusses that any political movement that holds individual freedoms to be important is vulnerable to incorporation into the neoliberal fold (Harvey pg. 41). Neoliberalism in Chile completely disregarded individual freedoms and the economic policies developed by the Chicago Boys was the main instigator for human rights violations.

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One of the more recent efforts to assess the impact of watchdog reporting is developed in the book Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, published by James Hamilton in 2016. In this study, Hamilton presents the main trends of investigative journalism conducted and published in the US in the past three decades and provides a compelling economic argument regarding its impact and, consequently its worthiness. Indeed, Hamilton examines –among other material- more than 12 stories submitted to the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award between 1979 and 2010. Based upon this extensive database, the author identifies the topics investigated by the US muckrakers in this period of time, the impact of this story, and how these works were produced and funded.

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