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The collapsing CNBC set

David Graham of The Atlantic posts about how a CNBC set fell on economic adviser Glenn Hubbard on Wednesday while he was being interviewed on the air.

Graham writes, “Hubbard was on CNBC to talk about the fiscal cliff and spending on entitlements when, mid-sentence, a piece of the set fell and smacked Hubbard on the side of the face. Hubbard was unfazed — after fierce battles over the future of Medicare and Medicaid during the presidential race, he’s apparently used to being attacked. ‘That’s what happens when you criticize the welfare state,’ he quipped. Apparently, elections do have consequences.”

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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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