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Filed under: Counter Terrorism, Espionage, Journalism, National Security

The plummeting sales of newspapers worldwide have brought about an epidemic of soul-searching about the future of journalism: do people still want straight reporting in the age of blogs? Is there room any longer for large reporting organisations like newspapers and network TV News? Above all, who’s going to pay?

Pedestrians walk by a piece of steel from the Twin Towers shaped into a cross next to Ground Zero in New York. Photo: AFP

Whatever the answers to those questions, it’s a good time to be reminded of what journalism can be at its best, and the Washington Post has produced exactly such a reminder. If you read nothing else this week, bookmark this site.

Over two years, two Washington Post reporters have been assembling an investigative series into what they call Top Secret America, and the results are fascinating.

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DD Ball says:

02:29am | 22/07/10

Interesting if true. Maybe the Post is now reporting as Fox has, as the Post should have but didn’t for all those years, because the left don’t talk about such things. The left’s shortcomings include an intolerance to differing views, and so they miss all these things. Yes the collapse… Read more »
Shane From Melbourne says:

06:25pm | 21/07/10

You don’t bite the hand that feeds you oil- even if some of that oil money does come back in the form of terrorism….. Read more »

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