Charlie Gasparino "Pugnacious Pundit Wall Street Can't Ignore": FT

Financial Times:

That memory seems to gratify Gasparino, a 46-year-old veteran of the newspaper trade who has found an unlikely niche on CNBC, the financial cable channel, whose best-known stars have been glossy female anchors such as Maria Bartiromo. Gasparino, with his close-cropped hair and broken nose, hardly looks the part. Yet the financial crisis brought out a different CNBC, one its bosses began to fashion after the network sagged in the wake of the 1990s internet boom. Instead of waiting for newspapers or wire services to break stories and then getting a chief executive or an analyst to comment, CNBC strove to produce scoops of its own -- and hired seasoned reporters to find them.

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Comments

[Manthan Bhatt]

charlie is a morn.

[ibsteve2u]

The article includes the sentence "That sauce [referring to contradictory opinions posited by CNBC hosts] has also brought in viewers and profits and, with ratings further boosted by the financial ­crisis, helped it to crush Fox Business News, launched by Rupert Murdoch in October 2007".

That rather overlooks the fact that if and when you want to be guided to what and who to hate, Fox is a good place to go.

But if you want the unvarnished truth because you have money riding on it....

[UsofA]

Gasparino and his ilk (i.e. Cramer) are all charlatans, taking credit for predicting the weather and changing the subject when they get it wrong. But always doing it in a loud, abrasive style so as to distract everyone from their empty messages.

[ibsteve2u]

lollll...o­h, c'mon....C­ramer isn't so bad - if you consider him to be a contrarian, and reverse his advice accordingly.

[calijon]

he's nothing but another repub propaganda spreader. cnbc is a waste of time

[tomasedison]

Crude, but often spot on with the story nobody wants to tell.