For some reason Bloomberg Television lost its signal for an extended period today, and in a moment of desperation CNBC looked like an alternative. CNBC doesn't get watched much here.
CNBC is a 'news channel' in name only. Its like the McLaughlin Group with financial overtones.
Its overseas branch operations are not as bad, with the UK show often being reasonably good.
But this Fort Lee operation is abysmal, an extended infomercial, a puppet show for corporate perspectives without fact based reasoning.
Bloomberg has been reaching new lows in reporting standards, but next to CNBC it looks like pure reason, a Pulitzer Prize operation.
"Go now, write it on a tablet for them,
inscribe it on a scroll,
so that in the days to come
it may be a witness to them, for ever and ever.
For these are a rebellious people, deceitful children,
unwilling to listen to the instructions of the Lord.
They say to their seers,
‘Do not see!’
and to the prophets,
‘Say nothing of what is right!
Tell us only things that please us,
prophesy illusions."
Isaiah 30:8-10