By Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente / Cronkite News Service, October 4, 2011 –
PHOENIX — Investigative journalism is on life support, real news is increasingly replaced with fluff and democracy is suffering because of it, a Federal Communications Commission member said Monday.
“Hundreds of newsrooms have been shuttered, thousands of reporters walk the streets in search of a job rather than walk the beat in search of a story,” Michael Copps said at a public hearing on the FCC’s report on media in the digital age.
His comments preceded three panels discussing the report’s recommendations at a session hosted by Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Copps, one of five FCC commissioners, said thorough reporting has been sacrificed as news organizations struggle to deliver greater returns to shareholders.
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