Jon Stewart was more probing, inquisitive, and showed more journalistic integrity in twenty minutes than Cramer has in his entire career at CNBC. From what little I’ve seen of CNBC, Jon Stewart shows more journalistic integrity in his twenty minutes four days a week than CNBC does in most of the entire week that it’s on.

Stewart literally revealed that Cramer MANIPULATED THE MARKET in ways that appear clearly criminal. If what Cramer was/is doing isn’t criminal, maybe we need more laws.

“More laws” might make the right wing scream that it would slow the US’s GDP growth but “more laws” could have prevented the unsustainable bubble that just wiped out trillions of wealth and left the entire planet teetering on a Greater Depression than what was created during the unregulated (“roaring”) 1920’s.

Slow steady growth IS CONSERVATIVE. Whatever the right-wing has degenerated into is sick. Right wing ideology just gambled America’s financial future as well as gambling America’s financial supremacy on the planet.

Right wing ideology is NOT in the interest of Americans or America.

The bottom line is that Cramer and CNBC and ultimately a predatory right wing ideology just screwed Jon Stewart’s grandmother’s financial future (and a LOT of other grandmothers and grandfathers looking to retire on their investments) with their reckless gambles.

While people like Zucker and right wing weasels may think that’s okay, it’s not.

Give it a rest, guys. All this Obama worship is getting tiresome.

The same model can be applied to the advertisements that CNBC shows during breaks. One individual ad watched by one guy makes no difference at all. But a $15MM media buy by Burger King spread over 3 months? That has a massive, absolutely measureable impact on Whopper sales. The stats are there and the math is there.

So yes, Jon Stweart is absolutely spot-on, and he is correct to challenge in the manner than he does.

The stagecoach industry didn’t go away before it was replaced by motors and trains and rolleys and good roads. If it had, the latter may have had a hard time coming about. One actually needs the replacements in place before the old goes away. Now it is mostly a product of newspapers being run and run into he ground by botomline capitalist corporate nonsense. It has mostly destroyed good radio, now news gathering will become scarce all our real news will be reported from Europe and Asia, we will be stuck with bloggers and kooks

Simply put, Zucker can have his opinions and but we have the videotape.

Which makes me wonder if, in the age of the Internet when information can easily be disseminated without any 3rd party involvement, there is any justification for keeping CNBC and MSNBC around unless they are enormously profitable. Are they? Otherwise, they might as well just be shut down, since their role is taken over by anonymous guys with computers.

A lifelong newspaper guy, I no longer have a subscription, and I’m just about done with TV news.

They “are” responsible and deserve everything that plays out as they go bankrupt. It’s not a coincidence PEW has been reporting over the last few years consumers lost substantial trust in media.

Journalists too are not off the hook if they think they can sit back now and whine.

While their bosses sold out our communities they looked the other way and enabled the spread of misinformation.

I can’t wait for the carnage to end so we can get on and not have to listen to the bitching and finger pointing.

Exactly the same thing happened in the music industry in the late 90’s/early 2000. Major label executives tried to first accuse consumers, and then musicians for their irresponsibility and greed.

The recent argument promoted by journalists and j-school profs that democracy will die with newspapers is ridiculous.

Democracy will simply get better without theheavy influence of the updated news media advertising model.

“Just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn’t make it so.” ”

Reply- Just cuz some idiot says he is being mocked as an authority does not make him an authority. CNBC, MSNBC, and yes NBC news are being mocked for their journalism, not their “authority”. Respect my authority? Is Zucker Eric Cartman?

“you’re already seeing a backlash” against the backlash against news media “in terms of people saying, ‘let’s stop beating the press.’”

Uh, yeah, who says that? Is it the authorities?

The press didn’t cause us to go to war in Iraq, he said; a general did. The press missing the financial crisis didn’t cause it. Both are absurd”

This quote is quite true. However, I also did not start the war. Does that mean I am free from criticism in my actual line of work? Does that mean my doctor is free to perform transplants while drunk? Its called a non sequiter. Ask Howie Mandel about it. Or the biggest loser.

On media facing the internet: “Newspapers didn’t face those questions fast enough.” Yeah, but they didn’t start the war. Ergo, criticism is absurd.

Asked whether MSNBC is tainting NBC News, Zucker says, “I’m not worried about it.” Note how this is not the same as “No”.

He’s talking out all four sides of his mouths.

Last night on ABC I saw a puff piece on how well Baghdad is doing ( Now that the Shiites have purged Baghdad of the Sunni population…of course they didn’t go into that little pesky detail). The report was almost funny how for one second…one second…the reporter showed a ghetto and said, “Yes there is still poverty in Baghdad”…the next second showed a shopping area with smiling faces.

This could be the prelude to….If we invade Iran…the same thing could happen in Tehran!

wtf?

maybe someone who claims to have “finished high school” should look into goldman sachs’ roll in all of this.

to the person saying aig is simply a diversion: !!!