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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

News in the age of information: We are often told that the 1________ of the “information 2________” has arrived. The idea is that 3________ work is becoming a more 4________ source of 5________ than 6________. There are already too many 7________ for the number of people who want to buy 8________, so the 9________ in the 10________ need to have a lead 11________ fashion, or technology to 12________ the 13________. You can easily see this 14________ at work in important industries like cars and clothing and computers where big companies prefer to 15________ their 16________ and let 17________ do the less 18________ work of manufacturing the products. But there is a problem with information as an organising principle in 19________. It only counts if people pay 20________ to it. Together with inventors and designers, the information economy needs Public Relations 21________ to make sure 22________ are getting the right 23________. So, faced with the 24________ claims on our attention, organisations in other 25________ have to do more to get their share of it too. So PR people may work for 26________ (then we call them “27________”) or they may work for artists (then we call them “28________” or “pluggers”.) A lot of our news is actually compiled from press releases and reports of events 29________ for journalists. Journalists spend their time, not investigating, but 30________ the words of a spokesperson, publicist or other 31________ propagandist.