Independent reporter, Matthew Lee, has been a modern day muckraker since 1987. His website, Inner City Press, has focused on digging up corruption within the United Nations for some time. Internet corruption has been a micro-focus for Lee. His style is annoying, his website has an amateur appearance, but the work he does is magnificent. So magnificent, that Google banned his material from their search engine. You will not be able to be led directly to Lee's website if you were to search his name or site through Google.
While the act of kicking Lee out of the world of Google is not acceptable, what it took for him to get to that point is what journalists should continue to do. There are still many other areas of our government and talking heads on Wall Street who deserve to be investigated by journalists. Muckraking may be annoying to the subjects being reported on, but it makes the public aware, which we desperately need in our country.
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