Суспільна значущість журналістських телевізійних розслідувань

Abstract

У статті обґрунтовано суспільну важливість розслідувальних ТБ-проектів. В Україні сформувався суспільний запит на прозорість влади та контроль за її діями, посилився суспільний інтерес до проблем боротьби з корупцією. Розслідування як напрям журналістської діяльності широко представлений у практиці українського телебачення. Журналістика розслідувань є однією з форм громадського контролю та важливим чинником демократичного розвитку суспільства. Надалі ефективність журналістських розслідувань буде залежати від розвитку в Україні громадянського суспільства. Investigative journalism is an effective form of public control and an important factor of the democratic development of the society. Today the active development of investigative reporting is in progress in Ukraine. Plenty of such projects on the Ukrainian TV channels testify about it. Using this format is dictated by the personal interest of audience. Nowadays, when citizens want changes, a public demand is formed for investigative journalism. Today in Ukraine, in the presence of corruption constituent in the government system, of unrespectable politicians and officials and «shadow» charts in the work of many companies, a necessity for investigative reporting is ever-higher. In the country the public demand was formed for transparency of the state authorities and control after their actions, public interest has increased to the problems of corruption and fight against this phenomenon. In the article the attempt was done to ground the social importance of investigative TV projects. The facts testify to the efficiency of activity of investigative reporters, when the media jointly with anti-corruption organizations and public pressure force the authorities to react on the promulgated results of investigations. However, positive changes, with the single exceptions, are «cosmetic», take place at the lowest level and only with concrete people, represented in telecasts. But in fact there is not a lot of such success as a result of prosecuting resonance investigations. The reaction of the authorities, which would result in system changes, absents in general. Subsequent efficiency of investigative journalism will depend on the development of the civil society in Ukraine. And it is a bilateral process: from one side, investigative reporting supports strengthening of public control and the development of the civil society; from other side, necessaries and efficiency of genre of journalistic investigation are the direct results of forming public demand for realization of control function over government.