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Michael Getler thought “Frontline” did an excellent job with “The Warning,” but he objects to the claim that a “Frontline” producer “unearth[ed] the hidden history” of the financial crisis. Credit WP for that. “Anyone who reads The Washington Post may well remember a major, triple-bylined, 4,400-word front-page story exactly one year ago, on Oct. 15, 2008, headlined ‘What Went Wrong,'” writes ombud Getler.
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Ombud: PBS show did not “unearth” hidden history of financial crisis
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