over don't move your money that's just been silly don't be silly the media was complicit says dave starkman a financial journalist and now with the columbia journalism review the business press former colleagues of mine friends of mine did not really recognize and understand what they were up against how dramatically the the world had changed the lending industry had changes things that you kind of documented how out of control wall street had become but i think the real contributing factor tactic to how we got to where we are today. start compares the journalists who cover wall street to reporters sent to iraq he said they too were embedded but in the corporate culture. the great panic of two thousand and eight is the equivalent for the bit business media what the iraq war was from that for the washington press corps is the national story of the last seventy years so the parallel is fair you could further extend the analogy a little bit to think about the idea this concept of being embedded and that the press corps itself was sort of imbedded with a particular narrative. that has its origi