Sunday, February 22, 2009

Fireworks on CNBC; will the network cave to capitalism?



Oh my...things are really heating up over on CNBC. It's interesting that the liberal slanting parent network is allowing such criticism of the new administration, but I have a feeling it has something to do with ratings. I'm very curious to see how the Nielsen marks will look, but even more curious to see if this type of programming will begin to find it's way into other broadcasts and networks. If it ends up being profitable will broadcasters open the gates to capitalism? Will they compromise ideology for "greed"? We'll know more when the word is in on how Squawk Box is doing. Maybe my premise that the programming is more profitable can be debated, but I don't think it's been tried in the mainstream news media. It seems to work with AM radio, but we'll soon see.

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  1. Nice blog -- I think Santelli is having a ball at the expense of the Admistration -- I think CNBC has figured out ratings and advertisment may be more important that supporting a half-backed bunch of clowns in Washington -- but, we will see what happens next week -- always a next week!

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