Bloggasm

The video footage you see below will no-doubt be fairly shocking. It depicts the atrociously disgusting and unsanitary conditions at a widely-used market for produce, one that ships to popular restaurant chains which serve millions of people. Hidden cameras show workers urinating mere feet away from the produce. It has rats crawling all over it. The produce is stored mere feet away from dumpsters and port-o-potties, which is a violation of health code. And it also proves that the health department has known about all these things and previously overlooked them.

Here is the video:

But besides making us thoroughly shocked, this piece of investigative journalism does something that is the epitome of what journalism is supposed to do: it causes positive change. It’s easy to forget that when we are slushing our way through the trenches that is 24-hour-cable news, pundit talk radio, and extremely biased blogging and column-writing. Journalism is to serve as a watch-dog system to protect citizens.

These journalists found out that there was a problem, and then immediately began investigating it. They placed hidden cameras, interviewed sources, and weren’t afraid to ask hard questions. And in the end, the Health Department is literally forced to do its job, and several restaurants refused to do business with the market until it cleaned up its act. Because of this investigative journalism, thousands of people will now be eating healthier food and will be in less danger.

Watching that video was a breath of fresh air after watching Chris Matthews and Co. and having to wade through a dozen mud-slinging bloggers like Michelle Malkin every day.

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