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By Ronan McMahon

Month in Review: Who Cares About Lehmans…

People like anniversaries. The media love them. It’s easy news to talk about the past. Much harder to report on the messy present or predict the future.
You just roll out the talking heads. They muse and ponder, pontificate and pretend.
This month it was the collapse of Lehmans Bank—the biggest bankruptcy in American history. A 10-year anniversary is juicy stuff for the media and it seems like every newsroom in the world prepared a piece.