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Hello, and welcome to the panic edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of The Huffington Post.

Hello.

We were just talking about your parent company, writing down billions of dollars worth of media assets.

We might talk about that later.

I'm joined by Anna Shamansky, who is the only person in the studio who does not work for a media company.

She's feeling quite snug about this. And we are also joined by the one and only Josh Durangle.

Hi, Josh.

Hello, Felix.

Josh, it has had a storied career in the content business, including many years at Time, Inc., editor of Businessweek, and now something, something at Vice.

That is the official title, yes.

And also has a fabulous executive producer credit on a movie that we are going to talk about so um it's going to be a media

heavy episode this week we're going going to talk about whether financial media.

We're going to talk about whether media in general.

And we're going to talk about whether the media just – we'll talk a little bit

about the financial crisis and the media and the intersection thereof, especially in light of this doc.

So all of that is coming up on Slate Money.

Let's start with this movie.

It's called Panic.

And I watched it on HBO,

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