Home »
» CNBC Down 40 Percent
CNBC Down 40 Percent
Written By mista sense on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 4:13 PM
CNBC down 40 percent from last year, according to PragmaticCapitalist.com. That's a screengrab from PC above.
Speaking of p.c., a different kind of p.c., given CNBC's ratings plunge, one might think that the cabler would not reject any good idea out of hand. And yet it did, in the name of political correctness. CNBC spokespeople seemed eager to tell reporters that there was no way that ex-CNN-er Lou Dobbs would be coming to CNBC. Now we might ask: Why was CNBC so eager to diss Dobbs? I mean, Dobbs has been a major star in the cable world for a quarter-century. And while his star eclipsed at CNN, so did CNN's own star. And it was obvious that CNN wanted him to go, mostly because CNN despised his populism. (If low ratings were a cause for termination at CNN, Campbell Brown would have been long gone, and so, for that matter, Jon Klein would have been shown the door. No, the real reason that CNBC went out of its way to diss Dobbs was the political correctness that has taken over the NBC-U properties in the last few years.
Political correctness makes one a hero to the Obama left, but it won't get ratings. CNBC is proof.