. JOURNALISM: HISTORY: Carl Bernstein: The "Golden Age" of Investigative Journalism Never Existed Carl Bernstein: The "Golden Age" of Investigative Journalism Never Existed Big Think Editors on August 10, 2010, 12:01 AMBig Think <http://bigthink.com/ideas/21766>
Legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says that he's not as concerned about the state of investigative journalism as some of his contemporaries arein fact, he thinks that newspapers like the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal are doing excellent work uncovering secrets in the halls of power. Rather, he's more concerned about today's readers, because he thinks there is much less reading of serious journalism going on today.
In his Big Think interview, Bernstein says the secret to becoming a great journalist is being a good listenersomething that he says journalists today usually aren't. As television superseded newspapers as the major news medium in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, Bernstein says, "A lot of reporters ran in with microphones and stuck them in peoples faces with the object of sound bytes really for the purpose of manufacturing controversy. The real purpose of reporting, of journalism is to illuminate what is real, you know, real existential truth. Whats going on around us? Thats not sensationalism, thats not manufactured controversy, thats notits about context and listening."
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