Comments on: Can Investigative Journalism Survive? http://www.launchsquad.com/blogs/exclamation/2008/08/21/can-investigative-journalism-survive/ Stories, Ideas and Loud Noises Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:42:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Katie Morell http://www.launchsquad.com/blogs/exclamation/2008/08/21/can-investigative-journalism-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-20693 Katie Morell Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:00:14 +0000 http://www.launchsquad.com/blogs/exclamation/?p=289#comment-20693 Hey Jason, I just read your blog about Spot.Us and thought it was facinating. As a print journalist, the deteroriation of the newspaper industry has greatly worried me over the past several years. I am especially facinated by investigative reporting and agree with you--that they are often what lead to significant societal change. One story I was especially taken with was in The San Franciso Chronicle a few years back. It followed a young, educated woman from South Korea who was having trouble paying off her university loans and got swindled into a sex ring. She ended up being sold as a sex slave in San Francisco (on O'Farrell St.) and stayed in the same room for years--until it came to the attention of city government and they shut the ring down. I will make sure to check out Spot.Us; it is a fantastic idea! Katie Hey Jason,
I just read your blog about Spot.Us and thought it was facinating. As a print journalist, the deteroriation of the newspaper industry has greatly worried me over the past several years. I am especially facinated by investigative reporting and agree with you–that they are often what lead to significant societal change. One story I was especially taken with was in The San Franciso Chronicle a few years back. It followed a young, educated woman from South Korea who was having trouble paying off her university loans and got swindled into a sex ring. She ended up being sold as a sex slave in San Francisco (on O’Farrell St.) and stayed in the same room for years–until it came to the attention of city government and they shut the ring down.
I will make sure to check out Spot.Us; it is a fantastic idea!

Katie

]]> By: ThaReal http://www.launchsquad.com/blogs/exclamation/2008/08/21/can-investigative-journalism-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-20678 ThaReal Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:34:53 +0000 http://www.launchsquad.com/blogs/exclamation/?p=289#comment-20678 I don't feel sorry for the newspapers at all. Maybe if they attempted to report the facts instead of skewing stories all these years, they'd have a little more credibility. What happened was people who were forced to read newspapers for all those years from lack of more reliable sources, jumped ship left and right, creating this huge exodus from newspapers. They had a chance to establish a strong customer base but neglected to do so by reported biased and untrue news and they're getting EXACTLY what they deserve! I don’t feel sorry for the newspapers at all. Maybe if they attempted to report the facts instead of skewing stories all these years, they’d have a little more credibility. What happened was people who were forced to read newspapers for all those years from lack of more reliable sources, jumped ship left and right, creating this huge exodus from newspapers. They had a chance to establish a strong customer base but neglected to do so by reported biased and untrue news and they’re getting EXACTLY what they deserve!

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