Media critic:

NEW YORK (AP) – Signaling a look inward that echoes critiques of the media’s performance in the months before the Iraq War, some of the nation’s top financial journalists believe reporters dropped the ball as the nation’s economy tumbled toward crisis mode.
Sixty-two of 100 journalists surveyed by Abrams Research, a firm started by former MSNBC chief Dan Abrams, criticized the media’s work, suggesting there was an over-exuberance about the economy and a failure to connect the dots as troubles began. “That’s a very telling and interesting number,” Abrams said Thursday. “Some of the comments we got were really fascinating. I think there’s a lot of self-examination going on within the financial media about what happened and why.” The journalists questioned over the past few weeks, mostly reporters from organizations such as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others, were promised their identities would be kept confidential in return for their opinions.

I wonder how Dan Abrams graded his performance as general manager of MSNBC from 2006-7.