This study is aimed at investigative reporters and how they can operate under the various obstacles and still perform their roles as watch dog. It is he hope that the out come of there research would encourage more Journalists to show more interest in investigative reporting. It is also expected to help policy makers and those in power to appreciate the works of investigative journalists and not to see them as enemies who were out to ruin them. The research was also intended to add the body of existing knowledge in this area of mass communication. It is expected therefore to be useful to mass communication studies, teachers, and scholars and to all researchers in the country and be provided with the theoretical materials for further studies. The study finally stressed the need for more priority to be given to investigative journalism by the management of media organization.
“Honest man will be and decent men will cheat for power. Few reach the pinnacle without selling what they own and promising what is not there to give. In the great and grueling question for power, it is easy to forget that power belongs not to those who posses it for the moment but to the nations and its people”.
The above statement by Jack Anderson of the Famous Water Gate scandal investigation Report spells out the extent to which those in power can go to conceal facts and project their interest. It also gives reason why such people should not be allowed to cheat the people as the power they were holding belonged to the masses. Public offices in the world over are known to give half truth to Newsmen which they in turn pass to the masses. Public offices in the world to the masses. Public offices in the world over, are known to give half truth to Newsmen which they in turn pass to the masses.
For this reason, it is therefore necessary for more in-depth investigations to dig out the truth about events in the society. This can only be possible through investigative reporting.
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