For the "Real" investigative reporters, life is never very easy, we the readers of the news or like only "Listeners" do not really see what the investigations showed, we only see the results of what the news owners want us to see or even better, only hear. If an investigative reporter wants to really issue his story he is threatened and eventually blacklisted and then silenced one way or another.

It is almost like they take the small time investigative reporter who has had a small success, hire then silence them. "here sign this no compete clause we will hire you for X amount of dollars for this many years, and you can not compete for X number of years after your contract is up"

If you were to ask the average person (me), who is an investigative reporter, they (me), would say I have no clue, or maybe "anderson cooper". ;-}