My faith in fair, accurate, investigative has been restored somewhat, even on the eve of a national election. In one of my classes today, a Democrat friend was mockingly criticizing the GOP for searching out Obama's illegal immigrant aunt and his uncle, both living in poverty in Boston. Such is not the case, however.
The Times, a UK paper, spent six weeks searching for the lost family members. Their primary source? Obama's own book, Dreams from my Father. Through following passages in the book, public records, and interviews, the Times eventually found the family members, living in the United States, and published their results. Interestingly, the process used to find them is probably more interesting than that they were found.
Investigative journalism at its finest? You can't really accuse the Times of criticism, they like Obama.
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