Nick Shirley just resurrected investigative journalism from its deep-dug grave in America. It is an incontrovertible fact that investigative journalism is dead and buried, not to mention mostly unmourned, in our country today. Shirley, a young man armed with a cellphone, just did in one day what our mainstream media, with all of its resources and personnel, has failed to do over the past few years; namely, uncover a fraud network of Somalian immigrants in Minnesota that may have bilked American taxpayers of $9 billion. What is shaping up to be the largest fraud scheme in all of American history has been going on for years right under the nose of our so-called free press, which long ago ceased to be the watchdog of the people, in order to become the lapdog of progressives. Our media is no longer about information and the uncovering of corruption, but about indoctrination and the covering up of corruption. Therefore, it is totally untrustworthy, our politicians unaccountable, our population uninformed, corruption unchecked, criminals unrestrained, and the American taxpayer pilfered unendingly. While Nick Shirley should get the Pulitzer Price for journalism, for reminding us all of what investigative journalism looks like, our mainstream media should get the Bronx Cheer from all of us, for burying investigative journalism long ago in a painstakingly build pyramid of propaganda.

NICK SHIRLEY AND THE REVIVAL OF REAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM