We need CNBC to do watchdog coverage of business, not be their lapdogs. Pls consider signing this petition:
http://fixcnbc.com/Some of the backers:
Dean Baker
Co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research and author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
Lawrence Mishel
President, Economic Policy Institute
Doug Henwood
Economic journalist and author of Wall Street and After the New Economy
Eric Burns
President, Media Matters for America
Peter Hart
Activism Director, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Linda Jue
Director, G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, a project of the Tides Center
Tracy Van Slyke
Project Director, The Media Consortium
Don Hazen
Executive Director, Independent Media Institute
Robert Borosage & Roger Hickey
Co-Directors, Campaign for America’s Future
Justin Ruben
Executive Director, MoveOn.org
Markos Moulitsas
Founder, DailyKos.com
James Rucker
Executive Director, ColorOfChange.org
Adam Green & Stephanie Taylor
Co-founders, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Aaron Swartz
Co-creator, Reddit and RSS & Co-founder, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Stanford University & Co-founder of Change Congress
Todd Gitlin
Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Chair, Ph.D. Program in Communications, Columbia University
Christopher Hayes
Washington Editor, The Nation
Eric Alterman
Professor of Journalism, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism & Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Tom Geoghegan
Lawyer and author of Which Side Are You On? and other economic-related books
Heather Boushey
Senior Economist, Center for American Progress
Eileen Appelbaum
Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University
Sylvia Allegretto
Economist, Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Rabb
Founder/Chief Evangelist of Afro-Netizen.com & Demos fellow
Phillip Anderson
Founder, TheAlbanyProject.com (New York Blog)
Ian Welsh
Economics blogger, former Managing Editor of Firedoglake.com
Rick Perlstein
Author of Nixonland and Before the Storm
Garlin Gilchrist II
Blogger at TheSuperSpade.com
John Amato
Founder, CrooksandLiars.com
Joe Sudbay
Deputy Editor, AMERICAblog
Josh Silver
Executive Director, Free Press