Posted by officerresourcecom (anonymous) on October 12, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Mass bank failures? Is the reporter trying to report the news or trying to start a story with this? This is not the first time in the last twenty years that banks have failed. Give me a break and quit trying to create news.

Posted by dannyabtl (anonymous) on October 13, 2008 at 9:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)

It's the new role of the media... Take a poll so you can trumpet the results as "news".

Journalists have become far to lazy or incompetent to actually research a story, so they find ways to create one.

Posted by intheknow (anonymous) on October 13, 2008 at 8:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

My, aren't we judgmental? In case you have been in a cave the last few months, some very large banks in this country have failed. Our federal government is spending around one TRILLION dollars in an attempt to bail out banks and other financial institutions before they fail.

So, I think it is completely fair for a local news medium to take a story that is garnering a lot of national media attention and apply it to the local level.

It's funny how those of us who criticize journalism the most have not spent even one day doing their job.

That would be like someone criticizing a law enforcement officer without ever having been in their shoes.

Posted by officerresourcecom (anonymous) on October 14, 2008 at 2:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Investment banks have failed. Investment banks have failed in the past. Take a look at the 1980's. Do you have to be a journalist to see that due diligence is not being done in the case of the national media? The Reporter is riding the coat tails of their national media counterparts. So let us apply this to the local level. Have any banks in Shelby County failed? NO. Are bank failures happening at a crisis level? NO. Are the failures that are happening now being given more attention than they have in the past? Yes. The term "crisis" sales period. It is not a question of what is being reported, but it is a question of how/why the information is being reported. As far as the bail out, government claiming to fix problems caused by none other than the government. Same story different day. I guess you have judgmental confused with critical thinking and data comparison.