The Cable Gamer freely admits that she has been watching CNBC a lot lately, because of the financial crisis. And yet I had noticed a sometimes strangely overwrought tone in the programming, but couldn't quite put my finger on it.
So I was glad that Ryan Chittum, writing for The Columbia Journalism Review, published a smart piece, "Note to CNBC: Breathe/ Burnett suggests shorts are unpatriotic; Cramer says it may be terrorism" taking CNBC to task for its over-the-top tone, especially from Erin Burnett and and Jim Cramer.
Well, everybody knows that Cramer is a loon, but maybe his looniness has spread to others at the cabler.
As Chittum observes, this is not the time for craziness:
Look, we know this deepening crisis has everybody, including financial commentators, spooked. And understandably, so.
But this is stuff you normally find in the darkest corners of Yahoo Finance chat boards, not supposedly reputable financial journalism broadcasts.
Time to take a deep breath.
Indeed.
