Betty Liu is Getting Out Tonight

Steve Krakauer of Mediaite interviewed Bloomberg TV anchor Betty Liu about her media habits and her job.

Among print newspapers, Liu readers the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

Here is an excerpt:

3. What’s the biggest story the media missed in 2009?

I think in this economic crisis, so much has happened that the media has been overwhelmed. Some stories unfortunately get dropped or overshadowed. For instance, in the beginning of this crisis, everyone was talking about all these “toxic assets” at banks. What were they? How much did “Bank A” or “Bank B” own, and so on. Eighteen months later, we’re not a lot closer to understanding what these assets are. And if you can’t understand them, how do you know any bank is really out of the woods – and that this crisis won’t happen again?

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