>I tend to lean towards Sinclair's beliefs that America's journalists have completely prostituted themselves and do not serve the public interest, as the popular belief has it, but rather only the interests of our country's large monied concerns. Did you read The Brass Check?

Now that I found it on http://teleread.org/brasscheckfull.htm, surely will.

Another guy who was interesting to follow was Günter Walraf (or was it Günther Wallraf), "Operation Bild" - which is amazingly ungooglable. I read it in Serbocroatian once, it was about how your standard tabloid works. Though they still weren't called tabloids then, and Bild doesn't really qualify as such, they're just the cheap pulp daily for the masses. This guy managed to get employed in the paper, and worked there for months, gathering material for the book.

He was also the guy who "sold" weapons to general Spinola, the transitional prime minister of Portugal after Salazar, and then published the wiretap, thus countering the countercoup there.

If there's another Woodward-Bernstein couple nowadays, they aren't reporters. They must be blogging somewhere.