Dennis Kneale Finds Groove On CNBC By Lashing Out At "Digital Dickweed" Bloggers

Dennis Kneale Finds Groove On CNBC By Lashing Out At "Digital Dickweed" Bloggers

Finding your rhythm as a rookie anchor in cable news, circa 2009, is in large part about learning to tap your inner outrage. On the night of Tuesday, June 30, Dennis Kneale found his. At the time, the 51-year-old business reporter was several weeks into a tryout, anchoring CNBC's 8 p.m. hour. He stared at the camera in a TV studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and lambasted the anonymous bloggers who were making fun of him on the Internet for, among other things, his recent and repeated claim that the recession was over. Mr. Kneale called the "digital dickweeds" cowardly and cynical.

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