Boycott CNBC next Monday and support FBN?

I just unplug the TV. Don't read newspapers either. That's not news. It's noise. 99 % of what I read, hear, or see on TV is meaningless to me.

 

I saw a few minutes of it this morning.

First story I saw? The Democrats and the S-CHIP bill.

Lots of recaps of the MLB games that I could care less about. Showing off the world's most expensive car in Times Square. Blah, blah, blah.

As to the visuals: the data on the screen is (premarket, pre-0800 ET) was boring and pretty basic -- DJ NDX SP futures and some stock quotes. None of the smaller indices (ER), world indices, commodities, or currencies. Not to mention, it's TOO DAMN SMALL and hard to read, even with my new glasses.

But at least they don't do the CNBC "sound effects" for screen wipes -- at least that I saw. Maybe they will during market hours, but who knows.

Then again, I could care less -- even though I have FNC as an alternative to CNBC, I could care less.....we finally have full Bloomberg TV here!

 

I've often wondered what owning mutual funds and GE would be like.

 

saw this quote:

"They say CNBC's on-air talent talks down to its audience and uses too much business jargon, like "basis points" and "Bollinger Bands."

umm...first...that's a contradiction. talking down to, then using business jargon.

second - i WISH cnbc used more business jargon like bollinger bands. after all, they're a f'in business network! basis points - how else do you explain it?

 

It's too complicated for those Cramer Mad Money piker morons who can barely read.

 

with big colored signs saying "SLASHING RATES 0.25% OFF!!" like they do at the wal marts

 

LOL.

Hell, even Jayboy would be more entertaining than some of the shiite they got on...


How about this: "The SFO Hour", or even "The T/A of Stocks & Commodities Show" of course it has the "15 Minutes With Don Bright" segment!


Funky old Louis Ruck was better than most stuff on nowadays...

 

So far Bolling and Claman are there. No one else from CNBC yet. Glad to see Bolling back on air. When Fast Money lost him, I stopped watching.

 

You mean T&A, not T/A...

Rukeyser must be turning over in his grave.

 

Just saw a few mins of FBC now that the market's open. I'm not impressed; definately looks more to the retail investor who doesn't know/care about anything other than Dow. Nasdaq, SP numbers. From what I can see, there's no streaming quotes, either, just prices on the "Fox 50" or something like that.

C'est la vie -- it is only day one for them.

Luckily I can now switch to Bloomberg, so I'm happy.