Columbia Journalism Review - Articles Discusses Stewart's Piece and Bias Of Financial Press

[Median Democrat]

Most notably is the articles acknowledgement of how the WSJ and CNBC frequently blur opinion and journalism. The most common transgression is how every decline in the stock market is attributable to something Obama said or did.

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/daily_show_eviscerates_santell.php?page=all

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But what makes this so interesting is what Stewart does to pierce the CNBC bubble on several different things that make the network so disliked by business journalists generally: Its lack of a line between opinion and reporting (and lack of disclosure about who’s a reporter and who’s not). Its Siamese-twin closeness to Wall Street. Its rah-rah rooting for the stock markets. Its inanity in interviews that too often veers into sycophancy. On the other hand, if there is a discomfort among the business reporters with CNBC, it might be because the network’s bad practices are only extreme manifestations of wider cultural problems in their profession

The show pieces together a series of clips of sycophantic questions lobbed at CEO’s that’s truly cringeworthy. It gets at the whole “If your mother says she loves you, check it out” thing. A CEO saying his company is okay is almost completely valueless. When are they not going to say that? Believe me, I’ve interviewed a lot of them. They just don’t do it

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[ellenfl]

1. watch it tonight at 8 est! it was GREAT! eom

[Cha]

2. Rec'd~ I saw it today and pretty much

thought all those points that Ryan Chittum is making(brilliant, genius, cnbc seething in their PR meeting)..thanks for this article, Median Dem. It needs to go viral!

It's corporatemedia against the People.

[baldguy]

3. Once again, Jon Stewart one-ups the punditocracy.

[BlooInBloo]

4. That's nice, but I don't see journalists policing their own...

Until they do, fuck them all.