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- duggitt4u, on 04/16/2009, -18/+62Now is not the time to go spineless....grow a set.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 04/16/2009, -5/+47Not true. Fox did not 'hammer' Bush. And CNN is not 'hammering' Obama.
The truth is the MSM tells you what 'they' want you to think or know. - shauncorleone, on 04/16/2009, -8/+35(Disclaimer: I am not justifying their actions)
None of this surprises me. Naturally, CNBC is in a constant battle for ratings, and they worry that by focusing on discrediting an apparently highly popular president, they are going to lose viewers and, subsequently, advertisers. I seriously doubt they're worried whether their recent Obama-bashing tendencies are good or bad for the country. They only wonder if it's bad for their bottom line. - arcangelgabriel, on 04/17/2009, -1/+26What happened to News outlets that reported news?
- Barackalypse, on 04/17/2009, -2/+25No, the media has been a purveyor of the kind of fear that drives people to gladly surrender their freedom to the Government in exchange for the illusion of security. The sensationalist fear-mongering of the media furthers the Government's agenda of seizing more control. Just watch how they report on child predators (especially with the Internet angle), pandemic disease, global warming, threats of terrorism, etc. You can see it in how they report stories about gun control and health care as well, they fall on the side of Government control and regulation far more than they side against it. Don't think that just because they report on Government waste and abuse means they are a watchdog.
- Exhibitionist, on 04/17/2009, -11/+31The MSM should be bashing Obama and all other politicians consistently. Democrat or Republican, the MSM should be kicking the ***** out of all of them on a daily basis.
- Bisquick, on 04/17/2009, -5/+25When I want to see hard-hitting, well thought out criticism of Obama, I always come to Digg first.
/s - Jensaarai, on 04/17/2009, -6/+20CNBC has pretty much been GE's Fox News. It's more a result of the network being little more than a Wall Street cheerleader since it was created, rather than any sort of "OMG RUPERT MURDOCH CONSPIRACY!!1111"
Unfortunately, a network cheerleading the narrow, short term interests of day traders (rather than long term investors, to say nothing of the wider body of citizens) tends to result in a pretty hardcore conservative economic bias. Not even that, really. CNBC, because it targets Wall Street day traders, has many on air personalities who are *still* against basic things most of us agree are needed, like accountability with TARP funds, or regulation of subprime mortgages or holding banks that take federal funds to some sort of accounting standard. - friday1970, on 04/16/2009, -25/+38The media has always been a watchdog force against the government. They showed this during the last 8 years of Bush. Obama in now in office, and many of the same policies are in place that Bush used, such as the patriot act, Gitmo, and the ever expansive growth of government. Now, like a switch, they can turn themselves off and turn a blind eye?
It seems they have and as of yesterday, have started to eat their own. - NSResponder, on 04/17/2009, -1/+14"The media has always been a watchdog force against the government. "
Not even close. During the first great depression, most of the newspapers and radio stations said exactly what Roosevelt wanted them to say, and during the war nearly all of them did.
-jcr - SamCatLu, on 04/17/2009, -5/+17Remember what the MSM and libs have been saying the last 8 years - dissent is patriotic!
- DeskFlyer, on 04/17/2009, -18/+29Digg.com is the new Obama bashing network, apparently.
- Spindig, on 04/17/2009, -1/+10What logic? They didn't say that they had the "best news", they just said they had the highest ratings.
- MacParrot, on 04/17/2009, -5/+14I must have missed the part where CNBC accepted millions in bailout money and the strings that came with it.
- jameshighmore, on 04/17/2009, -4/+12Yeah; I miss the good old pre-election days when everyone was wildly enthusiastic about him being good rather than bad.
- MeatMountain, on 04/17/2009, -10/+18I think you're forgetting the big hand job they gave Bush during the run up to Iraq, and the monumental effort they gave to be even handed despite the fact the man had the intellect of a retarded 5 year old and was pushing policies that were clearly running America aground financially, ethically, and scientifically.
- nova912, on 04/17/2009, -6/+13Yeah... I'm 100% positive Bush rushed through the first of the bailout packages.
- MacParrot, on 04/17/2009, -1/+8How exactly does "wealth for all" work?
- lilredsammy, on 04/17/2009, -0/+6translation- "is it o.k. to report the news?"
- CoryTrevor, on 04/17/2009, -3/+9Finally, someone who also realizes that the news is about rating now. Reporting news is secondary to ad revenue.
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -2/+8GE Wins FDIC Insurance for Up to $139 Billion in Debt
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive ...
I rest my case. - HeavensNight, on 04/17/2009, -3/+8***** em all ,***** all the cable news networks.
- JigoroKano, on 04/17/2009, -1/+6You must have been born after Clinton was president... or you didn't own a TV then.
- banderwocky, on 04/17/2009, -1/+6Just them asking the question indicates there is some problems in their 'journalism' I'll bet.
- UberGeek404, on 04/17/2009, -14/+19Obey Obama
Obey Obama
That is the new patriotism (eg tone).
Be one with the new Leader, or Jon Stewart with get you. - akamurph, on 04/17/2009, -1/+6Have you seen FOX News ratings lately? Well above the liberal media.
- TheSwashbuckler, on 04/17/2009, -3/+7"They showed this during the last 8 years of Bush."
More like the last four or five years of Bush. If they had done their job during all 8 years we never would have invaded Iraq. - omenmedia, on 04/17/2009, -2/+6I blame Cramer.
- swrostmore, on 04/17/2009, -3/+7Our source characterized the conversation as part of a broader period of soul-searching at the network. Until the crisis, says our source, it was "philosophically hard to separate" the network's institutional bias in favor of free markets from a more ideological conservatism.
Our source said some CNBC employees and executives now accept that the network was too willing to play cheerleader to the financial engineering-based economy, but expressed surprise that anyone felt political "pressure" after the dinner.
TPM: do you think it was just intended to put some distance between CNBC and this teabagging stuff?
CNBC Anchor Dennis Kneale: you are an intrepid observer. that's all i'm sayin
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/ ... - HappyScrappy, on 04/17/2009, -2/+6You don't watch CNBC right now.
Besides, what does it matter if a teenager such as yourself watches CNBC? You're not exactly the target demographic anyway.
They haven't shut Cramer up. And Cramer wasn't holding Obama accountable before, so how did they stop him? - gordigor, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4Why can't they just report the news? News organizations shouldn't be conservative or liberal.
- stuffradio, on 04/17/2009, -2/+6I think it's sad when one organization is too worried about things they are saying about an individual. Democrats already have no problem bashing Republicans, one should not care about bashing the Democrats.
I do believe there is something called Freedom of Speech which everybody loves. So if you think no one should bash Obama, and only bash Republicans... you truly don't like Freedom of Speech, you only like it when it suits your agenda. - inactive, on 04/17/2009, -3/+7The people who put Olbermann and Matthews on air are concerned about conservative bias for their CNBC crew? You can’t get anymore hypocritical than that.
With leadership like that it’s no wonder NBC News has turned into the ***** pile it is. - randumbusername, on 04/19/2009, -0/+3obama wants rail. ge wants money. ge owns cnbc. cnbc's tune is changing.
fascism??? not if it's a democrat. - pintomp3, on 04/17/2009, -10/+13By that logic Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Nickelback make the best music.
- UheardItHear, on 04/16/2009, -26/+29I'll stop watching CNBC if they become bias and refuse to tell the truth, and tell the world when Obama does both BAD and GOOD. The fact that they are even having this meeting, and the fact that they've somehow managed to shut Jim Cramer up from holding Obama accountable, it's making me wonder if CNBC is on its way downhill...
- schwagman, on 04/17/2009, -8/+11How ***** stupid are these guys. A liberal business news network would have a audience of 2 - Jeffrey Immelt and Jeff Zucker.
The real discussion should have been about moving MSNBC to the right to compete with Fox. MSNBC and CNN continue to fight for the liberal audience that has fewer viewers, leaving the entire larger conservative pie to Fox.
April 15 prime time numbers:
FNC – 3,390,000 viewers
CNN—1,070,000 viewers
MSNBC –1,210,000 viewers
Conservative = 3.39 million Liberal = 2,28 million
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker are letting their political views get in the way of making the most money for their shareholders. - ChristmasPoo, on 04/17/2009, -0/+324 hour news has ruined this country.
- 919kwjc, on 04/17/2009, -8/+11MSNBC is just an extension of the Obama press office. Have they had a similar meeting to ask them to stop tripping over themselves to kiss Obama's ass?
- ZenMojo, on 04/17/2009, -2/+5CNBC watches power slip away. Of course they're bashing him.
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -15/+18Yes my friend, and I was thinking the exact same thing. Now that the administration and Treasury have pulled the power to fire executives of companies out of thin air, I'd be a little afraid too. However, I wouldn't be this spineless. You can't put a price on integrity.
- schwagman, on 04/17/2009, -0/+2money
- RevLoki, on 04/17/2009, -1/+3Oh, don't you give give me that ***** you right-wing nutjob. You guys were the same ***** running around screaming "FREEDOM FRIES" for like 8 years straight. So I don't wanna hear two peeps out of your ass about patriotism.
Memories are so short. - MeatMountain, on 04/17/2009, -9/+11CNBC is a joke, they were pretty much completely discredited in a scant few minutes during a piece on the Daily Show showing them giving sloppy blowjobs to the charlatans that ruined our economy.
- MacParrot, on 04/17/2009, -1/+3Wouldn't him just sitting there and not saying anything be kinda boring?
- Afrozeke, on 04/17/2009, -4/+6People are taking a Page Six piece seriously? The same Page Six that has been caught lying time and again? Dummies.
- Kohaxx, on 04/17/2009, -3/+5Oh please, Bush didn't get nearly as much negative attention when he first took office. Get some perspective, President Obama's been president for three months and gets tons of negative publicity.
I think the discussions of the President go something like:
"Can we say whatever we feel like without sounding racist?"
"If we don't say anything out of fear of sounding racist we'll be criticized for wearing kid gloves on him"
What you end up with is very little legitimate criticism and a whole lot of bs over nothing. - Spindig, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2This article is bashing the media, not Obama.
- WasabiBomb, on 04/17/2009, -9/+11Republicans are only patriots when a Republican is President.
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