PBS ombudsman Michael Getler notes that the non-profit network received more than 500 responses from viewers in the aftermath of showing its documentary “Inside the Meltdown” about the current economic crisis.
“The dramatic music and camera work worked for me because this was dramatic and real and it isn’t over. The intense, black and white close-ups of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke captured the strain on these two suddenly very public men faced with the beginnings of a cascading financial catastrophe that seemed to defy control.
“The use of experienced financial reporters and economists, including former Reagan adviser Martin Feldstein, to move the narrative along was extremely helpful, I thought, although it might have been better to leave it to them rather than bring in economists who are also op-ed page columnists such as the New York Times‘ Paul Krugman, who offered a distracting put-down of Paulson.”
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