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Taking a look at "American Greed"

Robert Feder of the Chicago Sun-Times takes a look at “American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels and Scamdals,” a new CNBC show the premieres on Thursday.

The criminalThe criminalFeder wrote, “Narrated by actor Stacy Keach (owing to Kurtis’ commitments to rival A&E), the series takes the familiar form of documentary-style recreations of crimes and interviews with key players.

“But what makes ‘American Greed’ unique is that it’s a first for the business news channel — and that all the crimes reported here are financial in nature.

“In the opener, produced by Kurtis staffer Sharon Barrett, one of the segments recounts the exploits of a Ponzi scam artist who left a trail of suckers from New Hampshire to Nevada. Sad as their tale is, it’s hard to feel sorry for victims who knew the promises of unlimited wealth were too good to be true all along.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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