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Television current affairs veteran Graham Archer fears for the future of investigative journalism. With social media driving a news cycle at break neck speed, bite sized content and broken business models, risky investigations are less attractive to media companies. The question is - do we care? Graham still does. Current affairs television has been his world for the last 25 years, with Channel 9's A Current Affair, ABC's 730 Report and now Channel 7's director of news and current affairs in Adelaide. Graham says media plays a crucial role in holding powerful people and organisations to account, and can influence justice even when the Courts and Parliament can't. This was certainly the case for Henry Keogh, who was wrongly convicted for murder in a high profile case that played out in South Australia from 1995, until Keogh's release in early 2016. It is a remarkable and shocking story (references below for more information about the case). Graham was one of the few journalists who continued to ask questi