Stick to What You’re in Business For…
A couple of weeks ago I ripped FBN for covering the Balloon Boy story instead of business news. Today, The Business Insider’s Gus Lubin notes some non-business stuff going on at CNBC.com…
To maintain its premium positioning as the serious business news channel, CNBC doesn’t stoop to the sort of tricks and gimmicks that dominate less-serious business news networks. Being “First in Business Worldwide!,” means sticking to the serious stuff.
And that’s just what CNBC.com is doing today in its report about the lingerie and Halloween costume industries.
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October 30, 2009 at 11:45 am
Wow, finally something negative about CNBC…when they have been far far worse than FBN about not covering business. This from a channel that had an 18 year head start.
I said it before the Weather Channel made its announcement and I’ll say it again, it won’t be long before we see CNBC airing “business movies” at night or the weekends. They will end up showing movies like Wall Street, Barbarians At The Gate and other things…..once they’ve shown the same Porn and Coke documentaries 100 times.
Shoot, the Weather Channel was covering balloon boy.
If CNBC gets sold to Comcast, I look for even more changes and “non” business programming. It’s the nature of the beast.
October 30, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Yes, this point is particularly significant, now that the POTUS has deemed Fox News “not really a news channel”!
And someone this week (maybe it was Cal Thomas or Jim Pinkerton?) reminded us that MSNBC should not really be considered a news channel either, since they are down each and every weekend.