Clarice Feldman: CNBC: Media Matter Less

American Thinker ^ | November 1, 2015 | Clarice Feldman

[jazusamo]

This was a great week for those of us who consider the corporate media to be underinformed, partisan, and overly impressed with their own power to shape political affairs. This week CNBCs wretched conduct of the Republican debate hurt the pocketbook of their parent company, Comcast, and gave the entire media a long-deserved black eye while upping the audiences regard for intended victims. If Watergate was the high water mark of the public esteem of journalists, the debate was its Waterloo.

Like me, you have to admit that you never expected to hear Carl Bernstein admit the right was correct about the partisan bias of the mainstream press. But that is exactly what happened as a result of the CNBC debacle of a GOP debate:

Journalist and author Carl Bernstein slammed CNBC asreally reprehensible, and argued Republicans are “right about the mainstream media” on Wednesdays “CNN Tonight.”

Bernstein said, More than anything, MSNBC was -- Im sorry, CNBC was really reprehensible, but we got a real look at the Republican Party, for the first time, and their anti-government message is really picking up steam, and the Democrats got to pay attention to it. And they are right about the mainstream media. We in the mainstream media need to read the right-wing press more, looking online, I look at it. Because it is a very different universe than we talk about, and there are a lot of people out there that adhere to it

My Facebook friend Harry Stein described the event:

I've been thinking (way too much) about John Harwood. Have we ever seen a more perfect embodiment of the indestructibly self important elitist journalist? Watching him in action last night, repeatedly using his purported questions to parade his contempt for conservatives and all we believe,...

[upchuck]

Clarice BUMP!

[jazusamo]

She nails it again, my FRiend.

[GOPJ]

In this case advertisers joined up with good intentions. I doubt anyone bought ads thinking thuggy liberal elite reporters would act like jackasses.

[GOPJ]

...some of the enemedia are to the point they don't even try to mask it.

They can't contain their hatred... weird times.

[octex]

Even like in the parable of the Scorpion and the Hare,...
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Really?

[octex]

I’m sure that someone here on FR can produce a list of CNBC debate sponsors who paid millions etc. Time to fight fire with fire? The left, the gay lobby and the ‘war on women’ women (?) use boycotts to great effect.
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