For Getting the Admission on Apple Stock Hijinks Alone, BoomTown Hearts Jon Stewart
I know that "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart does not need even more praise for his spot-on comic and very real jabs at the CNBC financial cable network and its milquetoast coverage of the financial crisis, pre and post.
The silliness that prevails too much over doing serious and rigorous reporting that Stewart takes perfect aim at is a major problem.
Taking CEO spinning at face value and letting them yammer on on air without being challenged much at all has always been excruciating to watch at best and woefully irresponsible at worst.
But, to my mind, the most important thing that he elicited out of CNBC's most famous stock jester, Jim Cramer, was the part of the interview discussing using the malleable press to float fictional rumors about companies in order to make money on the negative news.
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