# Does old-fashioned, rigorous journalism still go on?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 4, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-old-fashioned-rigorous-journalism-still-go-on/811771 "2018-04-04T01:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-old-fashioned-rigorous-journalism-still-go-on/811771/62 "2018-04-14T15:13:38Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> With something like that, Watergate would never have seen the light of day.

Do you mean it wouldn’t have happened or it wouldn’t have been uncovered?

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-old-fashioned-rigorous-journalism-still-go-on/811771/63 "2018-04-21T07:19:45Z")

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Factual footnote to add to the original question: check out the [About the ICIJ - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists](https://www.icij.org/about/)[International Consortium for Investigative Journalism](https://www.icij.org/about/)who broke the Panama Papers story.

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