The Washington Post did the Watergate expose and seems to have been living off (and living down) that coup ever since.. The current "States of Play" thriller (which I haven't seen) is all about heroic journalist who breaks big story against mega corporate interests. But how often does this really happen? The commercial reality is that celebrity rags do better, and it is so much easier and cheaper to overlay the press releases with some op-ed to provide the veneer of critical objectivity. notes from no w here
They've been behind most of the major scandals in France over the past 40 years. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
They've been behind most of the major scandals in France over the past 40 years.
Presumably you mean they have exposed them rather than been behind them! notes from no w here
I don't know enough about Le Canard Enchainé's business model to comment on the accuracy of your comment, but even if you are correct, is it not the exception that proves the rule?
You could also argue that it proves that when broadcast media play to their strengths, it works.
The fact that most broadcast media fail to do so is no more an indictment of the media platforms in and of themselves than the election of Václav Klaus is an indictment of representative democracy as a whole.
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