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'Bad advice' from US television

An encounter on US television between the Daily Show's Jon Stewart and Mad Money's Jim Cramer has been causing a stir. It was even raised in the White House press briefing. Correspondent Richard Lister reports on whether the financial media had deliberately obscured the growing banking crisis in the chase for ratings and profits.

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