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CNBC Viewership Collapse Continues; Cramer, Kudlow Audience At Record Lows
What can be said here that we haven't said countless times before? If the braintrust behind Comcast's acquisition of the CNBC package deal, not to mention assorted increasingly more desperate CNBC producers, had hoped that an artificial "wealth effect" created under a central planning world would lead to greater viewership, more retail stock market participation, and better advertising terms (not to mention revenues), they were wrong. Very, very wrong.
The Nielsen rating of CNBC's business day audience:
Adding insult to the injury that is laughable total business day viewership back to only 2005 levels (and back to 1994 levels, when the bulk of today's traders weren't even born, in the demo) despite countless promo dollars, endless schmoozathons with the 0.01%ers, and trillions in dollars spent on bailing out fake and artificial markets and thus the TV channels covering them, were the following data points from Nielsen Media:
- Squawk Box had its lowest rated month since August 2005. Seemingly not even Joe Kernen's caustic wit, impeccable sarcasm, conspicuous coiffe and wry humor (if only in his own mind) and ARS' access journalistic "skills" are enough to unsink this particular Titanic
- Squawk on the Street had its lowest rated quarter and second lowest rated month ever
- Kudlow Report had its lowest ever rated month and quarter ever. Not even King Dollar can save Larry
- Mad Money had its lowest ever rated month and quarter ever. Sorry Jim: maybe stick to your hedge fund. Oh wait
The biggest irony, of course, is that to regain the lost viewership, CNBC needs precisely the kind of Bernanke-free volatility and real, unmanipulated markets that it itself preaches against every single day.
Oh well: it's been fun.
Update:
Thanks to observent readers, we just learned that none other than the abovementioned Larry Kudlow, alongside Deutsche's Joe LaVorgna, best known for such empirical studies as Groundhog Phil vs. Joe LaVorgna, and Joe LaVorgna vs Randomness, And Randomness Wins, decided to counter our argument (first noted here in December 2010) that the American New Normal is a part-time one, something which even the USA Today admitted yesterday.
We will let readers watch the clip below, which concluded with CNBC inviting Zero Hedge to participate on CNBC. While we appreciate the offer, the last thing we intend to do is i) to boost assorted Comcast TV properties' record low ratings, and ii) suffer Mr. Kudlow the same fate as that experienced by his predecessor Dennis Kneale who also invited Zero Hedge on his laughable excuse for a show in 2009, only to be sacked a few months later.
Finally, unlike various slideshow-heavy, Preferred Round ZZ financial tabloids, we have no use for CNBC or appearances thereon.
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Here ya go Knuks. Kelly Evans
I remember her writings for the Journal were constantly reflective of a Keynesian mindset, and she's just as bad on air. Also, her questions for the guests often make me cringe. Sorry, but I think she is one of the worst (along with Cramer. Jesus someone shut that guy up already.) on CNBC.
I would watch CNBC less, but Bloomberg seems to have an infatuation with social-media and tech companies. Both these channels are really going downhill.
I emailed Larry's fan club......told him to Fuck Off you fucking lying bastard.....bet that didn't make it through the filters....but at least I spoke my mind (it is up to them to listen).
Only reason I listen (I can barely stomach to watch) SB in the mornings is to listen to Santelli play whack-a-mole for the local keynesian of the day...
I'm with you, YC, can't blame people for being attractive in a visual medium, and though she's probably a bit left of my views, Evans (and Tausche) are clearly heads and tails intellectualy above Maria and that Ken doll Westgate. I think they underestimate the intellectual level of their potential viewers (perhaps 'potential' should have been in all caps). If they assume those will grade school educations like Cramer, they might try shooting a little higher in the other shows. "Fast Money" is obviously not a real trading show (just a broker-sponsored invitation to overtrade one's IRA), so perhaps replacing that timeslot with a round table, talkshow format might be better.
Thanks EclecticParrot. I was simply pointing out that the woman (Kelly Evans) doesn't seem to be corrupted on the level that her U.S. counterparts are.
cnbs sucks. msnbs is banned in my house and station blocked. I watch bloomberg ever since JCreamer and that half a girl andrew started. but of course bloomberg is on mute. someone should just have a station that has real time news, and a screen of tickers or cameras focused on the big board..tired of all these hacks.
Algos don't have tv's son....
Even the NSA does not bother to record the names of the remaining few who continue to watch CNBC --- except for laughs.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368553/
when does ZH TV get up and running???????
What's the ticker symbol for ZH Tv?
Not sure about the first letter or letters, but the last two are definitely "BS".
"when does ZH TV get up and running??"
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Well... to be on 'TV'... you can't have the likes of francis_sawyer around, now can you?
Francis you have it totally wrong. If CNBC had you on for an hour their ratings would go through the roof.
Maybe for about 20 minutes [until the FCC shut them down]
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Which, [paranthetically ^^^], is an idea that I think I'll risk trying out here...
Most of you motherfuckers think I'm a 'jew' hater... I've said, many times. I'M NOT... I'm interested in 'THE TRUTH'... Maybe my interpretation of 'THE TRUTH' is skewed, but I cannot help but NOT to observe & be massively impressed by 'mathematical & statistical anomalies & asymmetries'...
I mean, for 'chrissakes'... One would assume that ZH would be chock full of 'technical market chart analysts' that could tell you at the drop of a hat which DATA was skewed, or which 'markets' were oversold or overbought... I'm just a fucking dipshit... I shouldn't have to explain that concept to ANYONE...
So... Over time... I've spoken about the 'statistical asymmetry' of, let's call them, 'ethnicities', involved in:
- BANKING
- MSM
- POLITICAL ACTIVISM
- JURISPRUDENCE
...a casual survey of "ZH THREAD TOPICS" ought to indicate an 80+% preponderence of those issues [& more IMPORTANTLY ~ "who" happens to be involved in them]...
So ~ I've not been afraid to focus on ASYMMETRIES [within] those topics...
Let's leave that aside for a moment and get back to TV [the 'MSM' bullet point]... IOW ~ Let's 'forget' about facts like:
- Rothschild is at the head of the pyramid of more than a dozen families who 'OWN' the [non]Federal [non]Reserve
- or that 25 out of 27 Fed Chairs have been jewish
- or that Goldman Sachs, JPM, & the revolving door of US Treasury Secretaries [including Summers, Rubin, Geithner, & Lew] come from these ranks...
- or, the MAIN "K" St. funded activists [& where that money goes]
- or, the makeup of the Supreme Court [directly ~ of by sponsorship]... & let's just laugh about the state & district legislature & the shysters within that system
Let's focus on 'Hollywood'... [& let's even forget about the fact that MGM, Disney, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films, Weinstein brothers, & a host of others are all run by jews]... Let's forget that, NOTWITHSTANDING the 2% representation in the world, that the following list of 'DIRECTORS', is the "who's who" in Hollywood...
http://www.imdb.com/list/0xB2zkHnXUk/
Let's forget ~ That MANY lives were shaped... emotionally... by watching these FAMOUS actors & actresses while growing up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_actors
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My point IS NOT to criticize all these fine artists & entrepeneurs...
Instead ~ I'm just wondering about 'culture' [culture, as evidenced by 2% of the population procuring more than 80% of the INFLUENCE]...
Let me put it another way... Imagine I, francis_sawyer, were a negro growing up somewhere after the advent of television [but BEFORE, say, 1990]... I mean ~ except for 'COSBY', what the fuck IDENTIFICATION did I have with 'Father Knows Best', 'Leave it to Beaver', 'Dennis the Menace', 'Have Gun Will Travel', 'Gunsmoke', 'Gidget', 'Get Smart', 'Howdy Doody', 'The Partridge Family', 'Dick Van Dyke', 'Mary Tyler Moore', or 'The Brady Bunch"... I mean... fucking shit... I had to pin my hopes on 'The Mod Squad', 'Room 222', & 'The Flip Wilson Show'... I mean ~ luckily 'Sanford & Son' & 'Good Times' came along or else I think I might have busted out of Cabrini Green...
What I'm talking about is UNREALIZED DISENFRACHIZING... Nobody has ever talked about that because... [same as the way it might have seemed 'WEIRD', in the 1960's to complain about the lack of 'Cosby Shows']... There was never a movement against it...
So you gotta skip back now... This ASYMMETRY [that I speak of ~ & which the likes of 'kito' watching 'Dobie Gillis' in the early 60's can't even comprehend of, in this moment]... Is the 'ENERGY'... That I PROMISE YOU... Will come to the surface in the next decade...
It doesn't have to be violence... [unless the 'PROFIT USURPERS' of this asymmetry are willing to come to terms with the injustice]... Sadly ~ History will tell you that that's NOT the way it turns out...
That's why francis_sawyer 'FEELS SORRY' [more than anything else], for the 'kito' TRIBE... Folks will learn their lessons THE HARD WAY, if they're too arrogant to understand BALANCE [in REAL TIME]...
francis_saywer~..........~looks like most of the ZH forum agrees with you
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-08/look-inside-stevie-cohens-new-y...
Someday these fucks are going to WAKE UP & instead of 'junking' me... realize that I'm their 'FRIEND' [trying to wean them OFF the heroin rush of history]...
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In THIS MOMENT... I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt...
fonz - you're looking at this the wrong way.
If CNBC had you on for an hour their ratings would go through the roof.
They care about delivering their propaganda message. Putting on Francis, high ratings or no would defeat that purpose.
No prime time for Francis for the time being I'm afraid.
Francis's mic would go dead in five seconds, then he would be escorted out of the studio by our finest blue burlies.
The closest we will ever get to ZH TV is watching Bob English on RT.
cocaine is the mother's milk of Larry K's whores. he is on now w/ some cunt hyping Alcoa's "beat"- and they wonder why their rating suck.
I can see it all now, topless cougar conducting an interview with a bald Wall Street "banker", a gay beefcake guy comes running in wearing nothing but a thong and squirts mayo on the guys suit everytime he says "better than expected" on lower output as the Forty Niner cheerleaders do splits and shake their pom-poms in the background.
It'll be like a financial Gong Show for idiots & freakish voyeurs.
Oh, wait ;-)
I SO MISS THE GONG SHOW!
oft the only brief moments of sanity .....
One can learn a lot from lunatics...lol.
I keep hoping the day will come when one of these perfectly coiffed news reader morons finally looks at his teleprompter, down to his paper notes, looks in the camera and shouts "You ain't gonna fuckin' believe this!! Who came up with this bullshit!!!"
That implies they understand what they're given to read ;-)
Does anyone remember Naked News? Now THAT was TV at its finest.
You want laughs? I have laughs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/opinion/krugman-defining-prosperity-do...
What a fool.
Unlike the Krugster states, long term rates do not reflect expectations for short rates. Forward rates have been shown via a veritable plethora of rigorous statistical analyses to have no predictive value regardless of their use in futures and options pricing, etc.
Long rates are best defined by future inflation expectations.
Secondly, rates have not basked up as of late due to monetary policy hawks discussing tightening of monetary policy.
Nobody is attempting to contract the monetary base or adjusted reserves, (monetarist and Austrian perspectives) nor raise the interbank borrowing rate(s) (Keynesian perspectives)
Paul....
Oh dear, Paul....
Flaws and all, still the most beloved popular tabloid economist of the ages.
Congratulations.
Fuckin Krugman....put him on cnbs in the morning with his trick of putting three Billiard balls in mouth at the same time and watch the ratings spike...
Anyways I have plenty of show ideas to pitch that would guarantee ratings gold....
Aside from the above Krugman trick...we can put Cramer in an rv and go coast to coast asking random people on the street what's in their portfolio....he can start in Detroit....and if makes it out then off to flint and so on....give us a real first hand perspective of the recovery taking place while he banters about stocks with the fine people of America that are living under the bridges and tunnels and Walmart parking lots of our nation.....
We can put honey boo boo on Steve liesman shoulders ala master blaster from beyond thunder dome as he interviews the fed
We can have Maria dingbat dropped off somewhere 10 miles away from lower manhattan with nothing but 3 dollars on her and watch her try to make her way back home....
We can move Bib Pisani to Las Vegas (or Atlantic city due to budget cutbacks) where he offers daily data on the red/black data coming from the craps table...
Holy shit I'm high right now lol
Pisani could get a gig in Vegas introducing the fighters at boxing matches.
This article is proof that ZH doesn't only report bad news.
Haven't watched the propaganda networks in years.
Here comes Freddie to remind us of why we should turn off the TV in 3...2...1...
(PS: Freddie, Freddie, where you at? If there was ever a feel-good thread for you, this is the one.)
Cramers audience went broke from his stock tips. Looks like they are selling their TV's to buy food.
Next up, CNBC giving advice on the best dark alleys to give handjobs for money.
Literally...stunned amazement that they still put J. Cramer on the air on a daily basis....twice a day even. Cramer represents a proxy on just how clueless COMCAST execs truly are.
You said "Cramer" and "stock tips" in the same sentence! Bwaahahahahaha.
Full retard is listening to anything that bald fuck says.
Look (and I'm severely bigoted as to Cramer, on the turn it off for fuck's skes side) at least he has openly admitted that his intent is not grand inveatment advice, but entertainment.
Mayhaps a disclosure or intro of the Three Stooges type might be best utilized.
Still, it is not right, what he does.
Now, Suzie Orman is another story all together.
Mom, can I have a pony?
What?
Can I have a pony?
Billy, we were thinking of selling you for groceries. And remember that pony you wanted? Well, we're going to eat him for dinner...
(screams)
Enter Child Protective Services to share the meal with Billy's parents
He can try selling Samsung "APEX"
When will a former cnbc producer come forward and announce the scam they've been playing on all of us.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/08/former-msnbc-producer-slams-network-for-playing-lapdog-to-obama/
hehe - sounds a bit like sharks feeding on sharks to me, but it gave me a nice schadenfreude-y tingle up my leg reading "official network of the Obama White House". One thing I'll say for those MSM guys, some of their criticisms do have a nice ring to them.
He's a little late. Where were his nuts in 2008?
I smell a rat. Kernan and Kudlow and Bartiromo hate the liberal agenda, and, since Obama personifies that, they hate him especially. I just don't see a blanket Obama-lovin' network in CNBC. Now, if you wanna talk about a couple of other networks we have a discussion.
Maybe if the chicks showed more leg, sent the old and fat ones to pasture (Sue Herera) and had Michelle Caruso-Cabrera throw more cleave, they might get more ratings.
Nah, nevermind. Not even that would work.
I'd call BubbleVision a dumpster fire, but that, of course, would be an insult to dumpster fires.
Great, now they're gonna go full nuclear-retard.
Part of their problem, they'd say, is technological: mobile internet access & news feeds make counting on CNBC for 'breaking news' a 20-minute delay, and a scrolling ticker post 1990 is a joke.
At the same time, I'm convinced that, along with Tyler's strategic observations, their largest problem is one of personalities, or a lack thereof. Other than Santelli, Kayla Tausche, Carl Quintanilla, Kelly Evans and Seema Mody, virtually all of their employees have either shitty personalities or are deadly dull. It may be passe, but people like to watch those they could imagine having lunch with and shooting the breeze, rather than game-show-host types like Sullivan or Kramer. Replacing Maria with Tausche would be an immediate winning move, she's young, smart and could do a good job at that timeslot for years to come.
In this regard, CNBC World has them beat -- I actually like most of their hosts far better than the Bloomberg robots (except for Tom Keene, who grows on you like moss), and Bernie Lo's cynical attitude plays well given current world events. And, without meaning to be sexist, Deirdre Wang Morris can be considered on of the most beautiful women ever to grace financial television (and hearing her precious Canadian accent on words like "about" is rather special), and though they cynically exploit this by ensuring her reports are head-to-toe medium shots, with skirts rarely below the knee, in truth she seems very young but growing in confidence and could rival Tausche, Mody and Evans as future on-air talent. In fact, overall, their bench of young, impressive female talent in a still male-dominated industry is something they'd be wise to take advantage of, rather than exploit. But clearly, it's high time for Maria to go ...
The Bartiromo certainly lost all intellectual curiosity about markets...years ago now. She doesn't even try anymore...just has her two hours boiled down to two or three cliches.
to be fair. I do miss art cashin and rick santelli. Poor Rick must be locked into a death contract...although if either one says anything worth hearing . ZH will post it...thank you
I took CNBC off my channel list 3 years ago to prevent "view by accident"
Krudlow and Creamer, eh, more of the same kosher clown club.
correct... both Cramer and Kudlow are jewish. Just so you know whom you are talking about.
from Wiki:
Cramer was born to Jewish parents in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cramer
Kudlow was born and raised in New Jersey, the son of Ruth (née Grodnick) and Irving Howard Kudlow.[2] His family was Jewish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kudlow
At first glance, their viewership would appear to be inversely correlated to the complacency of equity participants -- or positively correlated with the perceived increase in panic by such participants. The real question would appear to be, if the S&P sells off big-time, would their ratings improve?
The repeat the same propaganda over and over. Dow 60,000, green shoots,, only place to put your money to work is in stocks.
What a bunch on losers.
My life is better for having dumped cnbc 5+ years ago. JWO propaganda machine at best.
The same can be said of the rest of the shit drilled into skulls via the idiot box.
BREAKING NEWS- kudlow just quoted ZH that the jobs report sucked because the jobs were all part time and joe lavorgna said ZH is full of shit- I AM NOT KIDDING.
Just beat me to it!
How far into this non recovery do they need to carry this lie? These people on CNBC are just flat out gutless. No one seems able to speak their mind and challenge the establishment's line of whatever the administration says we will honor.
hey lavorgna, go blow a goat
Least the goat'd get some "recovery"
I hear goats are always horny...
Kudlow just mentioned Zerohedge in their lead story.
these guys are fucking hilarious- I only watch for laughs.
Kudlow and Cramer,, which one is Peanut ?
And how did snake oil ever exist in such a venue anyhow!
Not unrelated: Most snake oil sellers in the teen centuries were eventually hung, drawn and quartered, burned alive, or beheaded...
Those methods are all too short for what these cretans deserve.
Santelli is ok... Cramer is a crook and the rest of the network rides on that Aussies monster rack... Burnett left when she was paid off for having that huge snout far enough up a CNN producers ass...
How much did Cramer exacerbate the crash with his "they no knowing rant" on national tv only to turn around and call da Bernak the man of the year.
I always wondered if he was in on it...
You have a good question. I don't know the answer.
But, I remember, at the time, thinking, "Cramer, you're way late! I sold weeks ago!" . . . Even though, we later set new all time highs before going much, much, lower than where I sold equities prior to thinking this, as I recall.
So . . . I'm not sure how I should think about things . . .
Forget all those people; you or I or anyone else can school them all, with only a little knowledge and practice, I think (or, at least a little more than a little).
Burnett = prostitute
I guess the girls should do their segments without wearing tops. On maybe giving a BJ on air to their featured guests
http://www.nakednews.com/
Liars!
They've got high heels on....
Gotta go taper...
What're you doin' Honey?
Watchin' the news sweet cakes!
You've been in there a long time, darling, you OK?
hmmmm uh yessssssssss giggle
One Solution
Game Shows, people love game shows, or a Reality Show. Were had the day in life of a Rock Star and Hores, maybe it's time for "the Bernankes"
ZEROHEDGE just mentioned as being wrong on the Kudlow show - re: Jobs report article
Interesting.
Asked Tyler(s) to come on the show -
Does he not understand the rules of the Fight Club?
only an idiot would go on that show.
example: karl denniger - i rest my case
Sorry I'm late to this post.
CNBC needs another massive market crash to get their ratings back up.
Watch, they'll get a ratings uptick when everyone opens up their retirement results for the past quarter: "WTF!? I thought things were fixed!?!?"
Kudlow left the reservation: has been praising Bernanke and talking as if we have free market capitalism, and that Edward Snowden is a traitor. Larry, Larry, Larry.
The more talented and intelligent anchors have left; really miss Melissa Francis who was hot and had a brain. The morning tart Kelly what's her name is pretty but not quite sharp enough.
It's the only thing I get on my cheap cable 'cause I'm cheap - valuable for sarcasm and a chuckle though.
Santelli and Bill Griffiths are just about the only two sober adults on the network.
Lol. Larry just invited Tyler(s) to come on his show to discuss the last (un)employment report, among other topics. Turns out no one there saw that the emporer had no clothes, but would like to discuss the matter with those that see it on a daily basis.
Tyler, kudos to you and the soap you sell - can't live without it.
I thought he was inviting tyler on to do some lines in the shitter?
It was bad enough when CNBC was losing the ratings wars up against Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, but not its down right embarrassing that it can't even beat out reruns of Gilligians Island and the Dukes of Hazard.
So that's why Kudlow wants Tyler on....
OMG....
Tyler better wear a butt plug...
Look Maria, take it or leave it. Either you flash your tits or you’re out, and we bring in the Fly Girls as back up to Cramer’s new Rap version of Mad Money.
What tits! Maria has spent her platic money on those husge co** sucking lips!
So sayeth, the fox.
Really!?!? Kudlow was bashing ZH?
Well thank goodness only 7 people are watching with 5 of them having the volume on mute just so they can watch the bs ticker
actually he was quoting ZH and defending it to Joe LaDoucebag from DB. also said he wanted Tyler D as a guest
Douches email...should anyone be so inclined to want to drop him a note
joe.kernen@nbcuni.com
Macke tried to tell them...it's all fake!
I would watch a Macke/Hugh Hendry CNBC show religously.
Cancell CNBC call in Loan Ranger and Tonto, same dogs and fleas; Kimo-Bombie with cramer
wearing the dead chicken, or fowl, or dead RAT.
Hey Corsino can be the Masked Man. LOL,
I can't believe people are getting tired of Crapper and Cuddleshit. Boohoo or is that booyah? Maybe they should let Kerner tell Lyingman what he really thinks instead of reading drivel from the teleprompter for his Friday paycheck (so he can go play golf). It's all a joke and Bloomberg makes you want to puke even worse.
They are like super annoying announcers at a pro wrestling match. Everyone knows it is rigged and wants them to STFU. When they talk I get pissed. I don't need that in my life.
aint no body got time for that!
Keep selling the economic lies. Keep the revolving door for new producers to pitch the same lies. CNBC is a man-child for future financial media ratings. Good luck fuck sticks..
Lets see. The cable company wants me to pay them to spy on me, brainwash me, fill my head with tripe, waste my time, pretend to select the criminals they parade as my own to pass laws criminalizing everything I think worth living for, and tease me with day old market advice from some old guys flaunting their membership in the Big Club. Oh man, I am so missing out. Where do I sign up?
Half of their viewership demographic is on welfare. The other half is dog tired from supporting the first half. Noone with money has the patience to watch that foolishness. The other half just don't care about anything except the 15th and 30th and who Kim what's-her-name is blowing.
People are hungry for the truth and are dumping the Bull Shit! that the MSM spews.
Chew on this CNBC Alex Jones has 3 million listeners a day.
Time for an "all hands" meeting at CNBC. Even high frequency trading firms can't make money off the stock markets. CNBC had better cut its losses by unloading Kudlow, Cramer and any high priced on air talent whom no one watches. Maybe CNBC can show "American Greed" episodes 24 hours a day and see how that affects the station's ratings.
An all hands meeting consists of everythere one fighting to create the largest hammer and sickle
"Damn it, I want lesbians. Lesbians are great for ratings. Get me some lesbians."
Careful what you wish for Shovelhead....Ellen Degenerate will be hosting soon
I want Maria that tomato faced pig to strap on a big one and roger Liesman in prime time. Perhaps cumcast could make some dosh from this by going pay per view?
Why does CNBC insists on hiring female journalist that are not sexy? I'd tune in more often if they had some nice babes. But knowing their genius programmer they'd do some kind of political correctness study and decide to feature gay dudes in their shows.
They went downhill after Barney Frank had Mark Haines removed .... don't ever dis a mean, gay socialist senator ? Fire all the "talent" .... keep Santelli !
Santelli is a STOOGE - have you ever heard him once rant against the big banks? nope - saves it all for the little old ladies
Come on - think about who pays rick.... he is the same same as all the other fuckfaces on cnBS
yaaaaaaaaaayyyyy...But hey, they don't even care. Neither do CNN, MSNBS, etc. the NBS channels get government subsidies from TARP and Microsoft (that is what the MS stands for in MSNBS of course). So we pay for them even though we boycot them. Just like PBS. Nice little fuck you trick on us by .GOV, ay?
These are just propaganda channels for TPTB to use against the American public. At least for the zombies that still turn these channels on, and obviously that's very few.
But it's enough. These channels serve the purpose of keeping the propaganda going and thus continue the great divide and conquer left/right paradigm strategy being used against all of us to keep the hate going.
Since they're subsidised by big corporations and the government, they can afford to lose 100 million a year. It's worth the right-off in order to be able to push those lies right up the sheeple's asses.
Not to mention also that even though most of Americans don't watch the channels we still also subsidize them through the payments in our cable and sat bills. Al "the douche-bag" Gore's stupid channel got money from every single cable and sat bill in America and that funded his bullshit channel until he was able to pawn it off to Al Gore-zira and make a profit off those scumbags.
Turning if off and tuning out does somewhat matter. But in reality the best thing Americans can do is shut off their cable services and just use the internet. If I didn't have a roommate who happens to be my brother I would have done it long ago. I mostly read while he watches TV.
But still we rarely watch anything other than sports and a couple cool shows like Deadliest Catch and other Discovery Channel and Nat Geo type stuff. Other than that I'd say 95% of the bullshit channels we get are never looked at....yet there they are, right?
If I could shut it off I would...I can watch anything I want, especially sports on lshunter.tv. Watched the UFC fight for free on it Saturday and was damn glad I didn't pay 60 bucks to see that piece of garbage Silva get his punk ass knocked out right away in the 2nd round! lol
You are so right Save, its pure propaganda while they keep the sheep occupied so they can accomplish the real work behind the scenes. Bet most people hadn't heard about this little story, outrageous & criminal at best...
In case you missed it. http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q32013/supreme-court-rules-drug-co...
July 7, 2013. Washington. In case readers missed it with all the coverage of the Trayvon Martin murder trial and the Supreme Court’s rulings on gay marriage and the Voting Rights Act, the US Supreme Court also made a ruling on lawsuits against drug companies for fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death. From now on, 80 percent of all drugs are exempt from legal liability.
In other words, if the FDA says something is safe, it doesn’t matter if that decision is wrong or the result of lies, fraud or deception on the part of the world’s pharmaceutical companies. And there’s no way to sue the FDA for being wrong and costing millions of unsuspecting Americans their lives. That result leaves 240 million Americans unprotected from an industry responsible for more preventable deaths in the US than any other cause.
Thank you for this. Just when I think the Tylers are covering all the news that's fit to print, there's more in the comments. 's why I love this site.
Have to ask. Why are ZH critical members still watching? Feeding the beast!
Because like Americafirst below says, my wife and kids watch the shitbox. If it was me alone I would dump that garbage, I keep pointing out the satanic innuendos in the cartoons to my kids though, no point in adding more dumb sheeple to the world.
I bought a small farm in Asia in 2008 and am lucky enough to be able to work remotely so we spend most of our time here.
I ditched my TV in 2010 because we were never watching anything - its ALL SHIT!
The only TV I can be bothered to watch would be downloads of full seasons of Mad Men - Game of Thrones - Larry David Show
Everything else - fuck it. Garbage
And there are at most 2 movies out of Hollywood watching per year.
Fuck them too.
Ditched my cable service, for good, in 2004.
After adjustments, viewership beat expectations.
California hasn't reported their numbers yet so there will be a revision upwards...
I don't know about you, but being lied to is kind of a turn off.
cnBS is a load of shit. Just look at the two stories on Alcoa on ZH today..... you will NEVER see those mentioned on cnBS or any other MSM channel.... all of them are utter rubbish.
They have lost total credibility..... they can cheerlead all they want - they can say there is a recovery all they want... BUT the people on the ground know that is all BULLSHIT. They know the jobs report was horsehit - they know there is no recovery.
And they are turning off this shit MSM.
If there is ever a ZH TV it better be Brad Pitt reprising the role.
Pitt's a libtard...maybe should be Alex Jones and/or Max Kaiser
"Adding insult to the injury that is laughable total business day viewership back to only 2005 levels (and back to 1994 levels, when the bulk of today's traders weren't even born, in the demo)..."
The bulk of today's traders are under 19?
It's simple; computers do most of the trading and they generally don't watch TV. If you want entertainment, there are dozens of brain dead shows to watch. I listen sometimes on Sirius and about all I hear is 9 out of 10 guests pumping the markets. Let's face it, just about anyone one CNBC has an agenda since they are mostly invested one way or another. It is way too self serving to be practical. And bad markets don't sell ads, so they have to spit polish even the crappiest turds.
That stinker..uh..I mean sinker is dropping fast!
Even Joseph Goebbels, the intellectual father of CNBC, would spit on their complete ham-handedness with the BS.
Propaganda must be spoon-fed, not piled in with a bulldozer.
Great observation akak! A great example is the glowing jobs report "beating expectations" and the economic recovery is promising! Yet, most of the job growth is in shit jobs... low wage, part time, no benefit shit jobs.
It's the MOPE on steroids that make me ill (management of perspective economics).
Yes... that's why they call it programming. Dumbing down the sheep to cause them to shear themselves... and now each other!
They shiver becuae their wool is gone. "The sheeple are standing at the steeple, wondering where all the jobs have gone. though they pray each day, they have little pay, because all of the truths they have been told are all wrong."
So sayeth the fox.
This guy started the disease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
shouldn't cnbc trot out bears on a regular basis? look at that chart. a bad market is great for ratings.
They should trot out bears on bicycles...
Split Option Reach Around.
That melissa lee drives me insane. With a time horizon of 15 minutes. What's your pick, jackass #2? Jackass #3 thinks Red is going to rally into close.
They never call out perma-wrong idiots. They invite them back. It's just retarded. They are just retarded.
This gives me faith in the future. The american people aren't listening anymore. Thank god.
Then again, I am dumber just for posting something about cnbc.
Hey stop slagg'n retards...they are way better people.
Yes...the babylon media crashes...and continues to go the way of the dinosaur. Give thanks that the world is waking up faster than they can keep controlled. The people of the USA are sick and tired of the lies and constant horsewash that comes undiluted from these slime spiting liars and deceivers. Everybody knows that the babylonian system of lies is dead. No one goes to the mind controlling digital hypnotizing TV anymore for the news. They go to the net and there are plenty of places to get the real deal news. People feel the truth in the heart. They feel the lies in the gut and it makes them sick, sick, sick!
More and more and more truth sites are growing in the info war every day. More and more Truth-bearers are coming out of the closet to speak their truth to power before it is too late to do so. Everybody KNOWS WHO and WHAT is responsible for all the lies and havoc in the world today. Can you imagine they call themselves the chosen people, or dare to say, God's people? If they really were God's chosen people, they would practice what God taught, right? Like how about those Ten Commandments for a start? And how about, Love thy neighbor as yourself, and Do unto Others as you would have them do unto you?
Well, after a lot of doing, some middle eastern country is seen for the evil they are and they are NOT God's chosen people, rather some sort of reptoid-type satanic synagogue of babalonic assorted toilet bowl puppets and paltry minions from the slimiest pit of scuck you ever did saw!
Wowie, imagine all that, for what now? So this poor country could be used as the pawn to start the final solution world war in which they and their families on both sides are ALL being SET UP to be eliminated for the puppet masters agenda of population reduction and world domination purposes? Hasn't that been tried already? Who profits from a World War in an age of nuklear, biological, and chemical weapons? In the end, is it really worth it? How many more will die for the god, money?
The first part of your post - that the proliferation of internet sites peddling truth must be the bane of the propagandists' existence - makes me wonder if Snowden isn't a plant.
I do love it so! But still, a heck of alot of people out there still tune in to this crap.
Slowly we make a difference. If we drop out of the system and turn them off, there's nothing they can do, because they know they need to get the productive people to be suckers. If they lose the productive people, it's game over.
We must remember the crucial message and keep spreading it. Without the consent of our time and labor, the empire of gamblers, cokeheads, and welfare queens will collapse of its own weight. Then they can have fun fucking each other up the ass in their crumbling buildings for their crumbling currency all they want. Good luck finding anybody who will drain that rectal abscess.
There are only 2 reasons to ever watch CNBC...
1. Tickers... with the volume turned down.
2. During large market crashes to watch them all cringe and eat crow. Twas very entertaining in 2008/09.
The only tolerable guy on cnBS was mark haynes..... once in awhile he would at least say what he thought....
Of course recall at one point he mentioned he wasn't sure if his contract would be renewed.
I never watched much but when he died I never watched again. But then again I no longer watch any MSM because I no longer have a TV.
I stay informed by logging onto ZH now
that chart looks like a BUY! to me!
I think the Tylers should go on.
Except put that witness protection pixelated face shit on them.
And give them all Bale's Batman voice.
I think CNBS would then see "the great rotation," out of their bullshit and into ZH readership.
Seriously, a station that employs Steve (I blow Bernanke daily) Liesman and has any viewers at all? Seriously
Now now Steve - no need to red arrow that comment...... that would make you look like that asshole Trump at the White House press dinner :)
Finally, unlike various slideshow-heavy, Preferred Round ZZ financial tabloids, we have absolutely zero use from a CNBC appearance.
Too bad, Mr. Kudlow. But maybe you could get Groundhog Phil to book an appearance.
CNBC is a propaganda front tor Goldman Sachs and other financiers of war against sovereign nations. They help promote the bribing of politicians and the funding of black ops covert military operations, the smack down of gold and market manipulation by the FED as well as Central Bank Fraud.
They present the Queen of England and Jamie Dimon other than their true selves--the lowest criminal degenerate scum of the species. Ok sometimes people are just too stupid like George Bush to be fully responsible for their actions. I'll give the Queen at least the benefit of the doubt.
What can you say other than good riddance CNBC. May they continue to be paid by Goldman Sachs even though they have no viewers.
Was watching a guest standing in as guest anchor a few days ago on Capital Connection.
He put up a feeble attempt to justify holding / buying gold in contrarian to the banksta fellow guest who savaged it, exclaiming immediately after that he was not ' convinced ' by his own argument.
Looks pretty desperate that cnbc would not wish to have someone who had the opposite view and would offer a choice to Any neutral out there.
No surprise viewers are dwindling as it's more or less a propoganda medium where objective informed opinions are not what the paymasters want.
CNBC suffers from being a non-stop stooge of the 1%, and the corrupt sistema. They just don't pass the credibilty smell test of much of the 99%.
they wanted people dumbed down and watching american idol well that's exactly what they got
Wasteland filled with kosher bullshit.
More CLEAVAGE is the answer for CNBS
They could even change their slogan: CNBC, Boobies Make it Better.
No one can afford cable anymore?
I just netflix and watch reruns.
Who needs viewers when you peddling paid propaganda?
Long live big brother.
with kudlow, ill admit at first i actually enjoyed his show somewhat.
However, i stopped watching when after every single segment going into commerical, he gives his speech how free market capitalism is the best way, etc, yet the man supports what bernanke is doing. makes sense, huh?
It does. "Free markets" and "Capitalism" are 2 terms that they're trying to 'redefine' for us. You know, so that the concepts can be destroyed and we can no longer talk about those things.
Like those good old words "liberal", "conservative", "terrorist"...
I have more respect for Orwell every day.
If he'd invite you into the cnBS shitter for a line of coke would you reconsider?
I did very much enjoy seeing the Zerohedge editor on Lauren Lyster's old show Capital Account.
That was a great show. Too bad she moved on.