Worth watching. Jon Stewart can do a good a pretty good i-view.
The thing that twits me most with CNBC is their _overwhelming_ political bias (and it is bias, not slant).
Are they a mindless 'business appreciation' channel, like the Murdoch Street Journal?
Well, even if you share Stewart's sense that business journalism should be more like honest, investigative reporting (or even show a modicum of intellectual honesty...), it's hard to hold a candle for that, too much, any more than you can expect the White House Press corps to 'get aggressive' to get the story.
Companies manage their image, deftly using carrots and sticks, and they aren't going to sit down with reporters who rake them over the coals. Just like Helen got 'locked out' of questioning Bush, ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Stewart-Cramer Smackdown
