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For You, For You, I Came For You

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer is right now reporting live from Wall Street (outside, on a street, in downtown Manhattan). She is there, she says, to talk to...
September 30, 2008

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer is right now reporting live from Wall Street (outside, on a street, in downtown Manhattan). She is there, she says, to talk to “real people” leaving work. Find out what they’re thinking.

Except that Brewer’s first interview subject (oh, the perils going live with the man-on-the-street interview) doesn’t “work here” on Wall Street. He’s a guy from Hackensack, New Jersey who tells Brewer that he “came down here today” because “I knew the media was here…”

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.