Huffington Post
That's what
Maia Szalavitz says. In Wednesday's
piece,
Jack Shafer makes a makes a "ridiculous claim" that newsroom cuts won't hurt investigative journalism because most of it is based on work originally done by government agencies or nonprofits. Szalavitz writes: "No need to bother to report it and check it out; the government and nonprofits can handle that. And people can find their way to these reports by hopefully setting appropriate Google alerts and reading blogs by people with non-journalism jobs who have no time to actually talk to people and figure out what's what because this isn't their paying work?"
