Where’s The Investigative Journalism

We once had a paper the Investigator

Had good articles but its centerfolds caused an uproar

Editions delved behind the scene

Research into the personal and sometimes the obscene

Educated us about Bajans’ other side

Some of the things the aristocrats want us to hide

They exposed the street life of those who

Had questionable work and avoided the men in blue

Escapades into the still of the night, shadows and dark

Investigated them in the familiar street and our treasured park

Now the paper was only in its infancy

Virtually a startup when it met its finale

Enticing photos distracted its readers

So eventually it joined the fate of other lost leaders

This could have been a first

Investigating Barbados and its worst

Greater insight into the things that perturb

All the political deceits, religious hypocrites and those who disturb

The publisher should have foreseen the Investigator’s fate

It should have been clear we wanted journalists who investigate

Voyeurism done respectfully with hopes that they

Expose our miscreants who wore their suits each day

Journalists seem to lack the appetite

Or too afraid to climb into the trenches, knuckle up and fight

Unable to shed new spins on old stories

Repeating the same news in the papers, on radios and TV’s

None of them emulate Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper

Avid journalists who investigate to uncover

Lies perpetrated from where ever the source

Investigative journalism to quote right from the mouth of the horse

Sure, if there is an appeal for police to act more professionally

Most other professionals should take their work seriously