Mad Money Popularity Down 24% While Comedy Central Up 20

The following vids shows one media network: Comedy Central (the Daily Show) giving another: CNBC (Mad Money) as bad a pounding as the market has seen in the last eleven straight down-days. It not about one ups-manship, and this one is surely NOT about comedy. This is some serious shit folks!


What this is about, isn't just entertaining TV. Its about owning up and admitting that all the various segments of CNBC who claims to have most if not all the answers, and wants to help you make money, is just flat out lying to you. The former President did it on national TV so why not CNBC??? No one is contesting that in the stock market people can and will get it wrong from time to time...but if you are representing professionalism, own up to your mistakes. Then instead of constantly rah-rah, cheer-leading and deception-marketing constantly to the viewing public, come out with solid financial information and be honest about what is going on. And, when you happen to have someone on the show that an interviewer doesn't see eye to eye with, do not cut him/her short and run rough-shot over their words; give them their soap box and have a real honest debate and allow both views to be equally expressed.

The public can see the truths much easier when opposing views are expressed. But unless the media has an unfair agenda against the public's best interest, eventually they will be called out one way or another and they will be embarrassed for trying to cover it up.

Since CNBC proclaims boldly that it is "the CNBC mission to be first and accurate with the news, including presenting actionable information. It is the preeminent financial news source on the web.." then it must live up to its billing. If not, then all they are doing is boldly lying about their mission to you, me, and all the viewers.


Viacom has been pulling down the YouTube video of the actual one on one. You can however see it on The Daily Show and the guy below says on Hulu. 
Here are the three segments. It is sobering to listen to, and Jon Stewart has never been so serious. This isn't comedy but reality. You can't slight Jon Stewart for calling out an entire network for their mis-deeds and lack of accurate, actionable information that they proclaim to provide in their mission statement.
Jon says point blank in the 3rd vid: "I'm now under the assumption, that you (we...should not) just don't take their (CNBC's) word for face value...you actually then go around and try to figure it out." 
Or as another comedian said: QUESTION EVERYTHING
This is the mark of a true journalist, financial paper/magazine, news station, financial show....  Before you present the information, question it's validity, make sure that it is true, or present it for what it is not.
The key to all this however is a question of accountability as CNBC claims to be first and accurate with the news, including presenting actionable information. Well, Jim Cramer does just that...presents actionable information. So if he is going to do that, he better learn to be accountable. If he doesn't want to be an even bigger target of comedy and everyone else who counts as the public face, then he must become accountable.

The same goes for those other fellas on CNBC including Larry Cudlow whose personal tactic is to YELL!! over the opposing point of view so that it can not be fairly heard and presented. Not only is this not professional, it is not in line with the mission of CNBC whom he works for.

If Jim Cramer had been your trusted financial advisor, he would have ruined you by now had you taken all his advice. If Jim wasn't getting a paycheck from CNBC, he may have financially ruined himself!