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�What we need from the media is more skepticism and more engagement. Too frequently statements are taken at face value. Also, most journalists are

Posted by Loyola Dec 15 '08, 14:16

are under such tight time pressure that they do not have the time to reflect and to dig deeper. They are on a conveyor belt and just trying to keep up with the required level of output.�

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What we need from the media is access to Imelda Marcos' closet. -- nm - sheba Dec 15, 14:35
As someone who works in the credit field I will say that my anecdotal experience supports the view that the credit markets had locked up. - pmb Dec 15, 14:30 1
- Yeah I figured that report was solely put out to help banking buddies in supposedly heretofore "well capitalised" banks and who would seek to explain - Loyola Dec 15, 14:40
more importantly, having journalists do actual reporting on their subjects would endanger the very access to those subjects that gives them anything - znufrii Dec 15, 14:20 1
- (although this is probably more true in political reporting than finacial reporting... -- nm - znufrii Dec 15, 14:20
The IM is soooo true. -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:17 2
- *cattle prods you* write faster. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 15, 14:42 1
  - whimper -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 14:43

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