MSNBC Producers Asked Not To Highlight Cramer/Stewart

[kpete]

Source: MediaBistro

Friday, Mar 13
MSNBC Producers Asked Not To Highlight Cramer/Stewart

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).



Read more: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/msnbc_producers_asked_not_to_highlight_cramerstewart_111307.asp

[valerief]

1. KO hasn't mentioned it yet. nt

[pleah]

2. He would be dissing his employer, but, I don't think that would really stop him.

I could be wrong.

[nolabear]

3. C'mon Keith! Rachel? Anybody?

Can't risk the job in a bad economy? Wish someone would take some names and kick some butt? Well HERE'S a thought...

[AlbertCat]

5. Rachel did reference it ...last night....in an amusing way.

It was more like "That thing we can't mention".

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Yes, it would stop him. KO is a team player. If GE does it, it's ok.

[moundsview]

7. Where else is he going to make 4 million a year?

Those jobs don't grow on trees.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. KO doesn't have to say anything

The whole thing speaks for itself. Its better if Keith just lets this boil over on another burner. If he jumps on the wagon then he becomes just another 'liberal media' anti-capitalist going for the easy kill, or so the FAUX news gang will portray it. Its much better to spread it around. Also why poke the NBC peacock when he doesn't have to? He can focus on stories that are not being told. I don't want the corporate execs to have any more ammunition to cancel his show.

[Geek_Girl]

6. Other than the occasional giggle or snide comment about Pat Buchanan

I've never seen KO or Rachel go after any of NBC's own.

[Garbo 2004]

15. Olbermann: Rick Santelli (CNBC) Worse Person in the World:

http://www.blinkx.com/video/keith-olbermann-worst-rick-santelli-rant/RuTwoFPddJ5WnTLSpLzlwA

[pleah]

8. To all replies: I did say, I could be wrong.

:hi:

[rox63]

9. It's still getting plenty of air time on other networks

I saw plenty of coverage of it on CNN and ABC today. If NBC doesn't want to diss themselves, I can live with that.

[jimshoes]

10. It's not so much Cramer got his ass handed to him

as much as it is the massive fraud and theft and theivery that is being uncovered by Jon Stewart calling out the dirty trickters and shining a light on the deception that is being perpetrated on America and Americans by the hucksters and snakeoil salesmen. For every Madoff that gets uncovered, there are 500 more that are still running their own Ponzi scheme abetted by the shills on M$M and their paid lackeys.

[DUlover2909]

11. Rachel is talking about it now.

8:28 pm CST

[Doctor_J]

13. The same shit must be happening on FBC and all

of these other "Your money" shows.

[w4rma]

14. It makes sense. I'm good at smelling BS and the vast majority of those "investment" shows are BS. nt

[frylock]

16. fuckin p@wnd..

eat it, you turd buckets. i'm lookin at you, joey scabs.

[Robbien]

17. If Wall Street and the banksters won the argument, clips would have been played so much

all over each and every cable/network news station that we would be sick of it.

Since the average joe's viewpoint won, the media is silent.

Kinda proves Jon's argument doesn't it.

[Spazito]

18. Here are some comments from Keith Olbermann on this...

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.


and this:



I've been at the Mets game all day (65+ / 0-)

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.

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

It seems he posts at Dkos sometimes.

[rolltideroll]

32. Thanks

That puts it rest for me, good job on the link.

[CoffeeCat]

19. MSNBC Producers Asked Not to Highlight Cramer/Stewart

Source: Media Bistro

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.

JCramer_3.13.bmpOn 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).



Read more: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/msnbc_producers_asked_not_to_highlight_cramerstewart_111307.asp

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A friend, who is a vice president at a PR firm sent this to me. He said that
this is an insider site for those who work in PR and the media.

Thought everyone here might be interested in it.

[havocmom]

20. yes, we've all been discussing this for hours

[vanboggie]

21. Excellent

I guess they figured out who won that match, too. :evilgrin: Thanks for this tidbit of info which made me smile - again :)

[CoffeeCat]

24. Well, it's not the New York Times...

...but sometimes it's intriguing to read what
the insiders are saying in publications that
most of us might not stumble upon.

:)

[Larkspur]

22. Rachel mentioned it on her show briefly

and she said that Cramer got grilled by Stewart. She also showed the clip about Gibbs talking about it.

Keith said nothing about it but I don't recall him having anyone from CNBC on his show to talk about economics. He usually has Paul Krugman and some other economic experts on to discuss those issues. Wonder if Keith thinks Cramer is an idiot?

[sasquatch]

23. To the front page with this news

[Robbien]

27. It won't get on the front page, that was Jon's point

The news doesn't show what the public needs to know. It only shows those things which are favorable to Wall Streeters and Chamber of Commerce types.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. Duplicate

Original here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3781930

[jillan]

26. After watching Schuster and Keith, I had a feeling this was the case.

Rachel, however, mentioned it ;)

[NBachers]

28. San Francisco broadcast stations aired it

I saw a lengthy piece saying everyone's talking about it; it featured the "so's cocaine and hookers" video.

[No Elephants]

29. That light you see in the distance is the sun setting on Cramer's financial advisor career.

[TheWatcher]

30. The Corporate Mafia doesn't like being embarrassed and outed.

Especially not on Comedy Central.

Anyone still doubt that the Media is Bought and Paid for?

[No Elephants]

31. Exactly. MSNBC has now left no doubt who won the showdown. Bravo, Jon!

[ryanmuegge]

33. Big surprise. All of these "serious" media idiots are slime.

They're all a bunch of gossip mongers who are just as reprehensible as the politicians that they cover.

It's good that Jon Stewart and Colbert are willing to call out the CNBC a-holes.