One could think this is the case when they highlighted their coverage of the Lehman bankruptcy with comments from Wall Street Journal reporter David Wessel saying how surprised he was by the collapse. Wessel is a good reporter who often has interesting things to say about the economy, but it would be nice to have someone on NPR occasionally who was not surprised by the collapse of the largest housing bubble in the history of the world and the financial crisis that would inevitably follow.
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