{"id":1213,"date":"2009-03-05T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:44:57","slug":"jon-stewart-on-cnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart On CNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further evidence that the only substantive review of the media takes place on Comedy Central. This is a must-see Daily Show clip wherein Jon Stewart mercilessly takes apart CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, even though Stewart couldn&#8217;t name another business network (he eventually came up with Bloomberg), there is another one. And it&#8217;s much worse than CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox Business Network was launched about a year and a half ago. At the time the chairman of News Corp said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=347\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;a Fox channel would be <em>&#8216;more business-friendly<\/em> than CNBC.&#8217; That channel &#8216;leap[s] on every scandal, or what they think is a scandal.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously Murdoch didn&#8217;t know what he was talking about. CNBC has long been a good friend to business. But FBN was created for that purpose. And, by the way, Murdoch also owns the Dow Jones index, which he acquired along with the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don&#8217;t miss Stephen Colbert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/220649\/march-04-2009\/glenn-beck-s-war-room\" target=\"_blank\">amazing take<\/a> on Glenn Beck&#8217;s asinine <em>&#8220;War Room&#8221; (be sure to watch both videos).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further evidence that the only substantive review of the media takes place on Comedy Central. This is a must-see Daily Show clip wherein Jon Stewart mercilessly takes apart CNBC. As a reminder, even though Stewart couldn&#8217;t name another business network (he eventually came up with Bloomberg), there is another one. And it&#8217;s much worse than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[233,182,44,30,187],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-cnbc","tag-fbn","tag-glenn-beck","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-jz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=347","url_meta":{"origin":1213,"position":0},"title":"Fox Gives You The Business","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/10\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Not two weeks after Rupert Murdoch confesses to propagandizing in support of the war in Iraq, he visits the confessional again, this time with regard to his new Fox Business Channel. At a media summit sponsored by McGraw-Hill, Murdoch promised the gathered conferees that: How can any viewer take seriously\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Media","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1222,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1222","url_meta":{"origin":1213,"position":1},"title":"Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s New York Post Attacks Jon Stewart","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/17\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In another example of Rupert Murdoch using his financially disastrous New York Post to whip people with whom he disagrees, the Post's Page Six published a ridiculous hit piece on Jon Stewart. 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This morning's interview of FBN\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=219"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":740,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=740","url_meta":{"origin":1213,"position":4},"title":"Fox Business Network Limps Out Of The Gate","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/5\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The new Fox Business Network may not be living up to the hype. 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