Déjà vu anyone? The financial press is confessing to their complete miss of the financial crisis.
Doesn't this sound all too familiar, like the reporting leading up to the Iraq war?
All journalists out there, perhaps it's time to stop reading corporate press kits, interviewing CEOs, being dazzled by power and money and doing your homework from first principles.
As a blogger we all know just how easy it is to rewrite press kits and post them as stories. Turns out that is what you reported on, fiction. Economic fiction.
What is more amusing, while financial journalists admit their failure and show acts of contrition, they are doing the same damn behavior right now.
It looks like David Sirota just might be chosen to host a show at the 10 PM slot on MSNBC.
It seems very possible: Last month the New York Times ran a story about MSNBC looking for a host to fill its open 10 p.m. time-slot. The slot follows “The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9 p.m. and “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” at 8 p.m. (which is currently rebroadcast at 10).
David Sirota wants the job. Join the Facebook group “David Sirota for MSNBC!” Email letters@msnbc.com and ask the network to ask the man to join its increasingly popular prime-time roster. And don’t be shy about blogging/twittering about his prospects.....
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