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Investigative reporter Murray Waas keeps digging while other journalists put on their TV makeup. “There are journalists who don’t do journalism anymore,” he tells Liz Halloran. “They go on television; they’re blogging; they’re giving speeches; they’re going to parties. And then at the end of the week they’ve had four or five hours devoted to journalism. TV takes time away from actual reporting.”
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