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bucolic_frolic

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14. PBS should simply drop the show

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 11:23 PM

Feb 2013

if they can't continue an independent voice, a dispassionate
thinking man's market perspective, they should give it up.

It's no longer a show that belongs on Public TV.

I'd rather see them turn to Bloomberg TV to produce it.

Bloomberg has taken Business Week to quite erudite places.

Nightly Business Report was in its heyday with Linda O'Brien
and Paul Kangas. Never been the same since, although Susie Gharib
is quite good.

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CNBC to Produce 'Nightly Business Report' for Public TV [View all] alp227 Feb 2013 OP

Considering the Koch Brothers seem to be funding a lot of their Cleita Feb 2013 #1

Not the NewsHour! alp227 Feb 2013 #3

And for every dollar they contribute they probably get two dollars off their taxes. WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2013 #10

I didn't say the Koch Brothers are funding the news. I said I stopped watching Cleita Feb 2013 #9

I still watch pbs news and prefer that over the commercial network news. alp227 Feb 2013 #11

I do Democracy Now!, Thom Hartmann and Rachel Maddow. But mostly I cruise the internet for Cleita Feb 2013 #13

Not good news. CNBC is very right wing-pro oligarch. Bloomberg is much better. OregonBlue Feb 2013 #2

Yes, CNBC is for unchecked corporate rule Kolesar Feb 2013 #5

Yep...CNBC is a deathknell. RW to the Core... KoKo Feb 2013 #7

CNBC is the Fox News of business information - a joke. WestSeattle2 Feb 2013 #4

"The Wall Street Journal produced a weekly show on PBS" BumRushDaShow Feb 2013 #6

I loved Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser. I didn't understand it and certainly didn't invest. Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #8

It was canceled in 2005. BUT it has a new life online. alp227 Feb 2013 #12

I wouldn't watch it w/o Rukeyser. He was the only reason I watched. nt Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #18

I watched it, learned from it, and enjoyed it. elleng Feb 2013 #16

No...the new young suits fired him, to bring in fresh blood. He may have been sick before... Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #17

I remember Crossfire, elleng Feb 2013 #20

PBS should simply drop the show bucolic_frolic Feb 2013 #14

Broadcast news has become an oxymoron. nt shcrane71 Feb 2013 #15

Isn't CNCB the channel that employs the woman who didn't/doesn't know what medicare is? (nt) harmonicon Feb 2013 #19