Jim Cramer, CNBC Ratings Down Since Stewart Attacks Began

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In the first three days of this week, CNBC's Business Day programming block was down 10 percent in the key demographic of adults 25-to-54 versus the same period the week before, and down 11 percent among total viewers. Meanwhile, Mad Money was also down 10 percent in the 25-to-54 demographic, but only 4 percent among all viewers -- suggesting that maybe some of those bored college kids who watch Jon Stewart did, in fact, tune in to find out exactly what is the deal with this Jim Cramer character.

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[Gmoney1]

11:30 PM on 03/16/2009

good

[goodog]

07:21 PM on 03/16/2009

"He has been in a television talk-show feud with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart for much of this year... "

It's been more like two weeks than "much of this year," but inflation may be setting in.

[Maschine]

06:43 PM on 03/16/2009

CRAMER....you are being "shorted"

[lgreene]

11:05 PM on 03/15/2009

Umm, it's been about two days.

[rikkirighteous]

05:50 PM on 03/15/2009

Stewart is still a light-weight who no one takes seriously.

Are there really idiots who get their version of current events from The Daily Show? The intelligentsia, indeed.

[brklynivn]

07:45 PM on 03/15/2009

Certainly not the righteous. Otherwise they couldn't wallow in their ignorance.

[rikkirighteous]

07:16 PM on 03/16/2009

I sold my stock, $250,000 worth, in late 2007.

I had seen the light!

[JoeBlough]

02:55 PM on 03/16/2009

He may be a light-weight, but he's all we've got. Main stream media are a bunch of cheerleaders looking to sell more stuff. Hardly hard-hitting stuff.

[inorbit]

11:43 AM on 03/15/2009

It's a sad day in American when the host of a comedy show does more to reveal to the American people the cause of their pain and ruin than mainstream media.

[StevieRae]

11:57 PM on 03/14/2009

Look for GE/NBC to revamp their programming schedule. When something like this starts impacting the bottom line.................

[PhilipTaylor]

09:20 PM on 03/14/2009

JOHN STEWART'S NEXT TOPIC!

Why is Government's Right to Print money OWNED by a Secret Bank Owned Private Organization run by Polished Front Men who refuse to tell us Who and How Much of $Trillions were allocated?

Why is the Private Federal Reserve able to Print "DEBIT" Money that impoverishes America and the Countries around the World?

Why doesn't the MEDIA Shine Bright Lights on How the FED has made America the Largest Debtor Nation on Earth?

Why are Wealthy Elites Getting even Wealthier off America's Massive Debt!
___________________________________________________________

Lets Keep our FOCUS!

CNBC is a "TOOL" of Wall Street but should be the Fourth Branch investigating Wall Street!

But the REAL Problem is EL1TE Federal Reserve and its E1ite Owners, the Banksters running the FED and manipu1ating Markets to their Advantage, harvesting our Retirement Plans/Investments as they see FIT.

Notice NOT "1" of the CEOs has been Investigated, F1red, or Prosecuted for the $700 Trillion R1p-0ff using "SURE FAIL TRICK&TRAP Mortgages", Excessive Fees, Illegal Shorting, Fake "AAA" Ratings, Hyper-Inflated Derivative Pricing, and a Cas1no Gamb1ing CDS Scheme!

Elites think in Decades, even Centuries, while they tell us to focus on this Week's MARKETS, or Today's, or this Hour! We must stop the HARVESTING of America's/World's Money by taking the RIGHT to Print Money away from E1ite Bankster Owned FED or we will never have a healthy Middle Class!

Months ago WS Banks were considered HONEST! People saying otherwise were called Conspiracy Theorists!

[RRG64]

10:17 PM on 03/14/2009

Stop making sense PT, it`s just too simple for them.

[ebanks84]

09:27 AM on 03/15/2009

SO TRUE! And until the "committee of 300" are exposed, we will NEVER really ackowledge the truth behind the banking system in the first place.

[Mauiloa]

08:59 PM on 03/14/2009

Poor Jim. Live by the inanity of the stock market and die by it as well. Isn't it amazing how one lone comedian can take down an entire channel of so-called experts?

I'm lovin' it!

[littlebrowngirl]

08:15 PM on 03/14/2009

Journalism is SUPPOSED to be about investigating things and giving information to the public. Instead, it is this spin machine that has been badly damaged.

After the bad economic news started, I STOPPED watching CNBC. They had no answers and could not explain why they did not see it coming.

It is a shame that a comedian is schooling Cramer who is supposed to be the journalist. Sad.

[JoeBlough]

02:59 PM on 03/16/2009

Cramer never claimed to be a jounalist. He's a stock hustler.

[bloggolb]

07:31 PM on 03/14/2009

I didnt understand Jon's Stewart's strategy in this, and think he acted silly in the interview. He should have gone after santelli instead, but went after cramer instead (who is a democrat), so I'm not sure what Stewart wants to get out of it. But still he is going after small fish, he should go after the main players such as the CEO's, congress, and wall street - and name the names.
I think Stewart acted silly during the interview, it's easy to sit there, and show video tape and use some one words against them, but unless you are actually doing something - making prediications, taking risks, being an entrapaneur, or being a manager - that's much more difficult - and where the real skills are.

[AndThenOneDay]

07:44 PM on 03/14/2009

Stewart isn't a journalist. He wanted Santelli, but the latter punked out and cancelled. CEOs are Cramer's problem -as a journalist. He says he knows they lie to him. It's not his job to say that to Stewart. He needs to say it to the CEO and the public.

The fact that Cramer is a democrat is meaningless. He either has integrity or he doesn't. He is on film explaining how to manipulate the market. You didn't find that troubling?

[StephenJK]

02:28 AM on 03/15/2009

It's not really troubling because all of the street addicts do it. If they have the capital to manipulate stock price one way or the other they are going to do it. It's not a problem with any individual. It's the stock market itself. There is SO much exposure to outside influence on a companies stock price, such as a pump and dump. We are human, after all and humans have proven time and time again that we find exploits and use them to our advantage. All the sanctimony surrounding this hullabaloo between Stewart and Cramer is amusing and that is all.

[Ohioan730]

08:39 PM on 03/14/2009

Why should JS care that Cramer is a Dem? I don't. A liar is a thief and a thief is a liar--as my dad would say.

[tel8034]

06:36 PM on 03/14/2009

Stewart should keep the fire burning until CNBC gets rid of all those blowhards, or until they decide to come clean and admit that they are NOT experts, but have been spinning and lying on behalf of the CEOs with the large salaries and huge bonuses, and not reporting with the interest of the investors in their minds.

[Navision]

06:34 PM on 03/14/2009

AOL-Time Warner ownes The Comedy Channel --- they are probably the biggest winner....

[cmeans29]

08:33 PM on 03/14/2009

Viacom owns The Comedy Channel

[ebanks84]

09:31 AM on 03/15/2009

Viacom needs to expand. We need them.

[unite4change]

04:27 PM on 03/14/2009

Please pass this on to everyone you know. Every American should see this. So once and for all, the GOP will stop the nonsense about minorities and poor people causing our financial crisis.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/

[crablover]

05:32 PM on 03/14/2009

Agreed. This Frontline report was the best and most informative piece I've seen on the economic meltdown. It should be required viewing for every American.

[TRichards]

04:05 PM on 03/14/2009

Stewart was right in insisting that his Cramer interview was "unfair." It was. Cramer was neither the rightful target nor the cause of Stewart's ire. Santelli, a CNBC demagogue without the nerve to take on a challenge to his conservative spew, backed out rather than show up and be shown up.

Cramer hasn't always been right. He's a trader at heart and a risk taker. He operated successfully in part because of his nerve and in part because he knew money management. It's not so clear that he knows how to impart his knowledge. See him as an entertainer from whom to garner some ideas -- but don't follow him as though you're either a child or a rat as he plays his pipes.

[crablover]

05:38 PM on 03/14/2009

I've never been able to watch more than 30 seconds of Cramer's show. He's a clown, pure and simple. Stewart's grilling of Cramer was spot-on. He expressed the anger and frustration that so many of us feel as we watch our economic security go down the drain.

The all-news cable networks have become a circus; filling time with hours and hours of mindless chatter. If I want to hear a serious discussion of current events, I watch PBS.

The financial-news programs are not journalism. The vast majority of the CNBC "journalists" are nothing more than readers of corporate press releases. I recognize them immediately, because I spent more than 25 years in corporate public relations.

[nettyspagetti]

05:55 PM on 03/14/2009

Me either, it's like watching someonewith add who forgot to take their ritalin

[AndThenOneDay]

07:17 PM on 03/14/2009

The film showing how to manipulate stock prices was of Cramer, not Santelli. The practices -cheer-leading and not meaningfully commenting on 35:1 leveraged positions, CEOs they know are lying, etc- belong to CNBC and Fox News. Cramer is not in a position to deny them, and to his credit, he didn't.