I wish all missing persons got the media attention like this story did.
R.I.P Gabby

That story about Gabby is everywhere. I feel so bad for her family.

@SparklingCrystal: You have made two very important observations - that the media should question the people in power & investigative journalism.

Responsible journalism is that which doesn't shy away from questioning the policies and decisions of the government, vis-s-vis the ground realities of the state. This is becoming a thing of the past! In the past, media has been muffled on such occasions, but it couldn't be made to toe the line of the government. Now they shamelessly toe the line of the Pied Piper!
Investigative journalism is also a thing of the past, here! Of the few who dare, are booked for sedition, or are murdered! And investigative journalism is also a costly affair, otherwise!

Yep, and I think the masses aren't even aware of this.

But we now do have the option to do the questioning & investigating ourselves by using the internet, by talking to people in other countries, by doing our own li'l research outside of what government allows media to spoon-feed us.
So we no longer are dependent on the media and news, although many still take it in without giving it any thought.

Maybe we have more power now? They maybe could shut up journalists in the past, but they cannot shut up an immensely large group of people. Certainly not when this group also contains scientists, doctors etc.

P.S. If you don’t like the idea of the IRS getting your bank info, plenty of petitions to your congressman out there to sign. I did.

thank you for that info. I will if I can find one . Are they online?

Yes, I received the one for the senators here through my credit union.

Journalism use to be about reporting the news, factually.
However, there have been douchebags since the dawn of time,
who have corrupted the flow of information with bias and
propaganda.

If you use Google for "questioning & investigating" to research what the MSM is "reporting" it could be a futile exercise.

It's been shown that Google buries some information many pages down and has algorithms that prevents some information entirely. Since Google saves search requests the US government is asking them to report searches of certain "words" and "phrases". The government is asking the most widely used internet search engine to spy on it's citizens. This is why there are only a few things for which I use Google.

But it's not surprising the current US administration is doing this since they want banks and credit unions to report to the IRS ALL bank activity of accounts that have a through flow or balance of %600/year. The same government that CAN'T legally impose a vaccine mandate on individual is using an "executive order" to REQUIRE employers to mandate employees get vaccinated. The current administrations "justice department" has weaponized the FBI to see if parents complaining at school board meeting are "domestic terrorists".

It should be concerning to Americans who believe in democracy when the government is turning private industries into spy's and enforcement agents and when an administration is investigating and labeling people with different ideological views as "domestic terrorists.

What's next? Re-education camps?

Of the few and far, among the journalists who still dare to get to the bottom of things, there's a great risk of their lives! It's not new that journalists are silenced for speaking against the state, but it has not been this brazen before! Governments are heavily dependent on corporates these days, with the abolition(almost) of state owned industrial houses!