U.S. media have lost the will to dig deep

While we have all known this to be true, it's worth being reminded from time to time. People should be angry about this new press culture and they should demand change.

The truth is, I knew that a story like this one would never be reported in my own country. Because investigative reporting — the kind Jack Anderson used to do regularly and which was carried in hundreds of papers across the country, the kind of muckraking, data-intensive work that takes time and money and ruffles feathers — is dying.

And why is it dying? Well, because of lack of money and that journalists are afraid of "losing access" to politicians. In other words journalists don't want to piss off a politician.

Expose the critters and the door is slammed. That's not a price many American journalists are willing to pay.

So, we the people are given information that is vague at best and quite possibly could be misleading, all because journalists don't want to ruffle feathers.

This is a sad, sad state of affairs.