Taibbi, Greenwald, Seymour Hersh (very underrated) and F. William Engdahl, who authored The Gods of Money about Wall St and is always digging deep into stories.
Guys like Cooper, Larry King, Wolf Blitzer, etc. are regurgitators of received information. Their job is to appear adversarial while conforming to establishment views. Not to mention the fact that most journalists in the MSM are buddies and acquaintances with the same politicians, statesmen that they claim to "investigate".
If journalism students actually look up to people like Cooper, then journalism really is dead.
Guys like Cooper, Larry King, Wolf Blitzer, etc. are regurgitators of received information. Their job is to appear adversarial while conforming to establishment views. Not to mention the fact that most journalists in the MSM are buddies and acquaintances with the same politicians, statesmen that they claim to "investigate".
If journalism students actually look up to people like Cooper, then journalism really is dead.