MSNBC Producers Told Not To Talk About Stewart's Demolition of Cramer/CNBC!

[mikiturner]

Oh my:

A TVNewser tipster tells us MSNBC producers were asked not to incorporate the Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart interview into their shows today. In fact, the only time it came up on MSNBC was during the White House briefing, when a member of the press corps asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if Pres. Obama watched. Gibbs wasn't sure if the president had, but Gibbs did. "I enjoyed it thoroughly," the Press Secretary said.

On Cramer's network, CNBC, the subject has only come up twice today, including when master marketer/CNBC personality Donny Deutsch brought it up briefly around 1pm on "Power Lunch." "I'm a huge Jon Stewart fan," said Deutsch, "He does what he does he does his job. But I'm also a huge Jim Cramer fan. He sticks up for the little guy, he cares, he puts his neck out, and I respect that. I respect both those guys."

Cramer appeared on his regular "Stop Trading" segment during "Street Signs." But the Daily Show did not come up. With anchor Erin Burnett in Washington, the discussion was about banking policy and the Federal Reserve, ending with Cramer saying, "Ben Bernanke's got the magic." (A far cry from Cramer's "Wake-Up" call to Bernanke in August '07.)

Insiders tell TVNewser Cramer will talk about Stewart tonight on "Mad Money" (6pmET & 11pmET).

Teh Fail! It Burns!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This obviously answers the question of why Doucheborough, CNBC, and Today were rather quiet today.

[AlCzervik]

1. i believe it, i was at the car dealer today getting my serviced yet again and M$NBC

was on the whole time, not a mention of either guy.

[monmouth]

2. I wonder if Tweety will go there...Cannot wait! You just know KO will....n/t

[Parker CA]

4. MSNBC will get their wish until the 2pm PST hour. After that, I have a tough time believing it

won't be discussed. Shuster should have some fun with it too.

[proud patriot]

5. that's my feeling as well

:hi:

[earthboundmisfit]

6. And Rachel

;-)

[polichick]

8. Can't wait to see who'll bring it up!

[liberal N proud]

3. Quick, sweep that under that rug over there.

[uponit7771]

7. They should, Cramer was humbled and offered some change the rest of them are...

...well...they have less character

[flakey_foont]

9. bet ol' Rushbo hates Cramer

taken all the attention away from Rush

[mzmolly]

10. I will say Cramer didn't have to go on the show and become a symbol

for all that brought us into the financial mess we're in. I hand it to him for that. He was humble and took some responsibility.

Sorry, I know that will not be a popular position. ;)

[Hekate]

19. I agree. I watched it all on the 'Net and have to give Cramer a lot of credit for going there...

Oddly enough I ended up sympathizing with Cramer -- I ended up thinking the wrong man was getting the smackdown from Jon Stewart. Mr H (the family MBA) watched over my shoulders and was very disturbed by it, which made me rethink my glee at Jon's performance.

Jon Stewart delivered a heroic and well-deserved smackdown -- but did he get the right guy?

Hekate

[Doremus]

22. He got *one* of the right guys.

I don't think the Daily Show's studio is large enough to hold all the "right guys."

How do we know Cramer's one of them? The smoking gun was Cramer himself, speaking candidly, on tape that he never thought would be broadcast.

[mzmolly]

33. Cramer articulated that he was trying to share what happens,

not necessarily what he does. However, I will not say that I believe that explanation. ;)

[mzmolly]

32. Hello Hekate.

I felt exactly the same.


:hi:

[Louis-Emmanuel]

11. I hope Olbermann doesn't let MSNBC tell him what to do

Cramer was spanked and it has to be reported. Commentators should be free to criticize anyone.

[Medusa]

28. He does and he did.

Nothing on cramer tonight on his show. But Rachel covered it. Go Rachel!

[NYCGirl]

29. This is what Keith had to say about it:

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2009/3/13/182441/605/333#c333

The assumption that we would automatically do a story on a story Jon Stewart did is not a good one.

There is no interaction between his show and mine, and while it's possible that we did some significant segments on any of his previous smackdowns or vivisections (as good as they might have been), I don't remember when that would've been. So it's either not happened, or it hasn't happened in a long time.

Also the premise of corporate no-touch orders to keep what happened "quiet" is silly. That horse (in fact, an entire stable-full) left that barn as soon as the video hit the internet. My understanding is Rachel's doing a little something on this.

There is also - and of course I know this from being on the other end - the element of competitive gamesmanship about this. If there had been anybody of Cramer's heft on Fox Business, subjected to Stewart's hammering, I don't know that ABC, CBS and Fox would've been quite so interested in covering it. Conversely, I recall Stewart doing a lot of hammering of Foxies and it's not like I've turned all of those into 10-minute segments on this show.
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I've been at the Mets game all day

So I'm reading the TVNewser post for the first time.

Frankly, the guy who posted this, the site's Associate Editor, Steve Krakauer ("SteveK"), is well known around the industry as being entirely in Fox's pocket.

His "MSNBC producers have been told" not to mention this, is, frankly, bullshit.

Have a look at his posts on this otherwise successfully neutral site: they are Fox News and Fox Business Channel press release rewrites, and anonymous criticisms from "industry sources" of people at CNN and MSNBC.

The Fox Business stuff is particularly egregious and particularly relevant to this. If a newspaper with a circulation of 500 people runs a feature on somebody on that channel, SteveK summarizes it, posts a picture from it, posts a link to it. I mean, seriously, if there's been any publicity for this channel that has yet to get a measurable audience after a year on the air (that means they're under 15,000 viewers), that hasn't gotten a link on TVNewser courtesy SteveK, it'd be a shocking upset.

Rachel could get the cover of Newsweek and he wouldn't link to it.

So, did Stewart do a good job? Obviously. Did we get ordered not to run it? Nope. Was stirring up rumors about a ban in the interest of a Foxophilic blogger with the credibility of a bush league Drudge? You bet.

[Spazito]

31. Thanks for this...

I am glad Keith commented on it. It IS interesting the guy who posted the rumor is known as being in "fox's pocket. It certainly will make me more skeptical of anything he or his site posts.

Thanks again, it's always helpful to get the facts from someone who would know.

[ejpoeta]

12. well, why would they want to bring attention to the fact that cramer got his ass handed to him

and basically lost the 'financial expert' tag.

[Thrill]

13. Gibbs didn't let them off that easy. Don't they have to report what the WH Press Secretary said?

[namahage]

14. Weird...it's on the MSNBC website:

Stewart hammers Cramer on ‘The Daily Show’

[Cha]

18. That is weird..

<snip> from your article..

"Stewart said he and Cramer are both snake-oil salesman, only “The Daily Show” is labeled as such. He claimed CNBC shirked its journalistic duty by believing corporate lies, rather than being an investigative “powerful tool of illumination.” And he alleged CNBC was ultimately in bed with the businesses it covered — that regular people’s stocks and 401Ks were “capitalizing your adventure.”

[ericgtr]

24. It's just an AP feed, they successfully gagged all of their people today nt

[Supersedeas]

15. GE - shiny happy people

[Hansel]

16. Self delete.

[Cha]

17. Cover up by the corporatemedia.

whore$$$~ Who woulda thunk.

[high density]

20. So did Cramer talk about Jon Stewart on Mad Money?

He played a clip from his Martha Stewart appearance and that was it. I fast forwarded at 60x and didn't see it come upa gain.

[Parker CA]

21. Doesn't look like even KO is going to venture into this story. Some serious punishments

must have been threatened for dissenters.

[ericgtr]

23. They should be held to the fire for this I am very dissapointed in MSNBC

They are forcing their network to cover up actual news because someone from their sister station got spanked. I have always held MSNBC up as one of my main sources of news but after this I have lost a lot of respect.

[Leo The Cleo]

25. If this is true . . .

then I understand.

[jenmito]

26. Rachel just covered it. n/t

[ericgtr]

27. She didn't mention CNBC but at least she did say something so good for her

Today she is the only one there I have any faith in.

[jenmito]

30. She showed Cramer's face and I THOUGHT she said his ratings have gone down

suddenly and millions of people have watched the video of the interview.