over don't move your money but that's just been silly don't be silly the media was complicit says dean starkman a financial journalist 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 way the world it changed the lending industry had changes things that you've kind of documented how out of control wall street had become and i think it's a real contributing factor tactic to to how we got to where we are today. even compares the journalists who cover wall street to reporters sent to iraq he said they too were embedded but in the corporate culture. and 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 so that the press corps itself was sort of embedded within a particular narrative. that h