The story is thought provoking about the causes of lack of coverage of consumer protection issues. It seems to still need a little deeper investigation of why the media are not reporting consumer issues. Is it corporate control, or is the public to fat and dumb to be interested? No mention is made of the complex financial instruments such as default credit swaps that even the buyers/sellers with MBAs failed to either recognize or speak out about the risks, let alone journalists.

This is excellent journalism laying the news of predatory lenders from one era to another. great.

This journalist has been at this a long time and so adds great historical perspective. It is also timely and a call to action for young people to take up journalism as a vocation and not a way to make a quick buck.

It is good inthat it tries to focus on the media's failure to do good reporting on credit issues. Howevr, it devotes only one paragraph to the real problem - that media owners are increasingly corporate (Graham wasn't at the time) and increasingly dependent on other corporations for advertising revenue.

Better than it used to be. It is amazing to see the gutless wonders of the Fourth Estate growing new cajones. Here's hoping to a more intelligent future.