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Editors insist they adequately covered the mortgage crisis long before the collapse of Bear Stearns. "We did a pretty good job of looking at some of the rumblings and problems," says the Wall Street Journal's Matt Murray. USA Today's Jim Henderson tells Joe Strupp: "We were writing stories on sub-primes and housing prices going up. Loans being made to people who were not credit worthy, particularly in 2004 and 2005." || CJR's The Audit: Dean Starkman on Jim Cramer's call on Bear Stearns.