"You do have an obligation as a journalist to push important issues into the public consciousness." - Washington Post's executive editor, Marcus Brauchli admonishing his own staff for not reporting on the credit crisis more effectively.
The press are beginning to notice that they didn’t notice the flames lapping at the financial nation’s ankles these past several years. This is something of a ritual; and a bit of a peculiar one at that, since newspapers have always been much better at reporting what has already happened than what is about to, and have the attention span of goldfish. The exception is war, which hardly ever catches the papers by surprise.
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