Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

That's clearly not an independent organization.

There have clearly been serious questions raised about some of the contracts that were awarded in the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq,

Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.