’)You should check out Frontline’s “Inside The Meltdown” program. It touches on how Henry Paulson’s conservative ideology contributed to Wall Street panic. The program also shows that besides the con cranks who choke the mainstream media, the idea that the sole cause of the problem was poor people getting mortgages is mighty ridiculous (this won’t stop them from citing it time and again, its now part of the official con lore).
Aside from the excellence of the program, I’m noticing the “Watch the entire program online” banner.
This is the future of TV. This is where newspaper writers and editors need to be lining up.
A great example of why FRONTLINE is the one PBS program I watch religiously – even moreso than NOVA, which is saying a lot as a science nerd who credits some of his early interest in subjects like cosmology to hearing Philip Morrison on NOVA…