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-Reaction Paper- investigative journalismMedia funtions as a overseer when it use its power to expose wrong side of administrative associations. This medias watchdog feature show itself with investigative journalism.Investigative Journalism has positive and negative effects above all state and hush-hush instituons. We have to life at these different aspects.Investigative journalisms biggest positive effects is to push people work correctly and frankly who work in different instituons. Nobody wants to fall into a side drum who composed by a investigative journalists and its obscure camera. Now this hidden cameras mostly using for exposing the misuse of authority or health scandals. Investigative journalism start to function as a survelliance in company in course of time. This type of journalism provides people to work chasten and prevents them to abuse community or the state. Investigative journalism ensure that justness is done. However at that place is a problem. Is investi gative journalist in a right place to investigate? or does this journalists regards his self-benefits? This compose of the negative sides of the issue. When we look at media bosses in Turkey. There are portraits of people who has different kinds of corporations in industry and market. And we cant expect that they expose their rotten sides of their corporations. Because this againsts to their self-benefits. They of course dont want to lose prestige and profit. So there can be a lot of wrong things which is concealed because of this media bosses self-interests. other thing about investigative journalism is the hidden camera. This harms peoples personal rights and honours. Sometimes people who is suspicious pulled to trap by a journalist. And this is non suitable for the principles of journalism. Also hidden camera sometimes enters to mystic places such as houses of people. Exposing them without permission in their private place is not ethical for my opinion.In addition to this, in vestigative journalism generally exposes low companies which composed with small amount of money and worker. After exposing them, they cant recover themselves and put an end their business life in the market.