{"id":333,"date":"2009-03-20T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/20\/cnbc-unbalanced-again\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:33:28","slug":"cnbc-unbalanced-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/20\/cnbc-unbalanced-again\/","title":{"rendered":"CNBC: Unbalanced Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Burnett is at it again.&#160; Because she is latest, most popular \u201cmoney honey\u201d at CNBC, she now has two shows a day.&#160; In her afternoon segment, she again went on the attack against any tax on AIG bonuses.&#160; In fact, she\u2019ll attack anything that jeopardizes her buddies\u2019 compensation on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>So to examine the issue ad nauseum, she had two guests on -&#160; The Washington Post\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/19\/AR2009031903607.html?hpid=topnews\">Steve Pearlstein<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123751279319191219.html\">Ian Berman<\/a> of the Eurasia Group &#8212; both of whom wrote columns today opposing the tax legislation now making its way through Congress!&#160; Along with her leading questions and snarky comments, bill defenders were at a 3-0 disadvantage.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not defending the bill, just looking for a modicum of journalistic balance.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe CNBC needs to adopt Fox News\u2019 \u201cfair and balanced\u201d joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Burnett is at it again.&#160; Because she is latest, most popular \u201cmoney honey\u201d at CNBC, she now has two shows a day.&#160; In her afternoon segment, she again went on the attack against any tax on AIG bonuses.&#160; In fact, she\u2019ll attack anything that jeopardizes her buddies\u2019 compensation on Wall Street. So to examine&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/20\/cnbc-unbalanced-again\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}