Investigative journalism: The darker side
Friday, March 13, 2015
This film comes from the same film writer who gave us hit movies Real Steel (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2012), Dan Gilroy. This time he makes his directing debut with this 2014 American neo-noir crime thriller.
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as (Louis Bloom) a thief who starts shooting footage of accidents and crimes in Los Angeles and selling them to news channels.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...