The young go-getter investigative journalists are a thing of the past. The major networks tell journalists now what to report and how to report it. They don’t need to investigate anything, they just make it up.
Investigative journalism in the US is dead. Last year, I saw a German network team that got people hired within Burger King in Germany, and exposed a number of bad business practices and sanitation procedures. It was the kind of stuff you’d see in the US back in the 1980s.
Go look over at Sixty Minutes. They mostly do comical stuff and international stories now....avoiding any contact with corrupt police departments, banks, or business operations. I could take a camera crew around DC on the eastside, and collect forty hours of video showing gang activity and drug sales. Who wants to cover something like that? No one.
Yep, it is not about the investigative journalists any longer. Even if they uncover the "story of the century", no news organization will publish/air it unless it brings down a conservative or a Christian. Heck, we've got Woodward (himself) basically saying that Hillary is the new Nixon and no one cares.