Chris Hayes: Erin Burnett's Wall Street Coverage 'So Frustrating' (VIDEO)

MSNBC host Chris Hayes was the latest person to take CNN's Erin Burnett to task for her trip to the Occupy Wall Street protests last week.

Burnett has received solid ratings and interviewed several high-profile government figures in the first week of her new show, "Outfront." But nothing she has done has gotten more attention -- much of it scornful -- than a segment on her Monday show in which she went to the New York home of Occupy Wall Street and spoke to protesters there. She played footage of her telling a man that taxpayers made money off of the TARP bailout, and then said, "This was the big issue, so we solved it."

A bevy of commentators (including HuffPost's Jason Linkins) excoriated Burnett for the clip, which they saw as smug and misleading.

On his Saturday MSNBC show, Hayes and his panel watched the clip.

"Arrrrgh!" Hayes said afterwards, calling it "so frustrating." He said that TARP was "completely immaterial" to the protests, which are focused more on inequality and corporate greed.

"Students didn't get zero percent loans from the Federal Reserve!" he said. He then turned to panelist Naomi Klein, who has spoken at the protests. She noted acidly that some protesters are tweeting that their movement is going to last longer than Burnett's show.

"Now we're picking fights with other shows," Hayes joked. Klein continued that Burnett's take "profoundly misunderstands" the nature of the bailout and the movement.

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Comments

[Heracles]

04:09 PM on 10/13/2011

I find Burnett terribly annoying. Irregardless of her dissing the OWS protest; she's the type of person who is difficult to watch. I change the dial whenever she comes on the tube.

[Ifocus]

05:13 PM on 10/12/2011

Pull the plug on this absurd 'news' show. The lack of quality is astonishing. The lack of comprehension of the issues accompanied by a flagrant disdain for the tragic situation of so many in this country (who according to the *star* of this show, have made money in this calamitous situation..... perhaps she also believes that everyone nowadays HAS a job, all working for Wall Street?) is yet another attempt to diminish the importance of the predicament of those who are struggling to survive. This is a mockery of the deplorable plight of millions of human beings; the show should be boycotted. There still are those few in the media that seem to believe that anything they say will still be accepted as truth; those days are over. The time has once again come for the constituents of this wonderful country to start addressing the issues head on as in the days of the Viet Nam war; the plight of the people needs to be expressed, heard, and taken seriously. Perhaps then all those have been elected to represent the members of their state and now happily find themselves ensconced in their tea rooms, will focus their attention in the right direction and start working in behalf of those who voted for them .... or, they can take their tea bags with them with them when they leave their offices after the upcoming elections! It's time for a complete, electorate, judicial and media revival.

[Charles Queen]

04:10 PM on 10/12/2011

Why are they "ripping" this persons coverage of the wall street protestors?It's no big deal,the people are unhappy and do not like whats taking place with washington so their protesting which is their god given right to do so as long as the remain peacefull and do not interfere with the every day buiseness as usual there

[jim chavez]

10:52 AM on 10/12/2011

i just backed up the video to see the cleavage.

[fgtaylor]

08:39 PM on 10/11/2011

i think chris's show will last longer than erin burnett's....

[joici]

07:24 PM on 10/11/2011

I saw Erin Burnett's Occupy Wall Street report and was disgusted. Her response to the college student that Wall Street had paid back it's bailout loan is ridiculous. The question is why did Wall Street need a bailout. The reason is the banks, full of greed, gambled on the hope of Americans trying to achieve the American Dream, home ownership. The banks ignored the fact that if liabilities outweigh assets, a loan will be denied. This is simple math. They allowed people who only had liabilities to obtain loans. The banks were not trying to help Americans achieve home ownership, their sole objective was to make more money.

[Richard Lanum]

06:53 PM on 10/11/2011

When will CNN have a liberal? Actually, I would be happy with someone who is just tells the truth.

[arx754]

12:10 PM on 10/12/2011

Try Anderson Cooper.

[Richard Lanum]

07:35 PM on 10/12/2011

He might fit the honest category, but he does not give the liberal side of arguments very well.

[davemartin7777]

05:07 PM on 10/11/2011

Too bad she's not a blond, she could have worked for Fox news.

[Anabelle Whitepaws]

04:33 PM on 10/11/2011

Glad she's on CNN now and not MSNBC. An embecile could see who she's kissing up to. Thank 6od for MSNBC...

[seattlejames]

04:17 PM on 10/11/2011

I have considerable doubt that CNN knows what its doing to itself and has been doing over the past five or so years. They had Lou Dobbs, gave birth to Glenn Beck and now Erin Burnett. Do they really want this woman to become one of the prime network faces?

[Json]

05:33 PM on 10/11/2011

CNN knows exactly what it is doing. Trying to be FOX-lite.
It makes perfect sense and it is a decent strategy if your goal is just more viewers and more profits.

[MarsAmbassador]

03:53 PM on 10/11/2011

Erin Burnett is a corporate hack. Worked at Goldman Sachs and Citibank and as an advisor to Trump on 'The Apprentice'. She is also engaged to an executive of Citibank (David Rubulotta). Part of the machine. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which is a lot closer to groups like Bilderberg and other shadowy One World organizations than just some ordinary think-tank.

[MarsAmbassador]

03:46 PM on 10/11/2011

Protestors have an issue with corporate influence and greed. The media is ENTIRELY owned by the corporations. No wonder they're having a hard time figuring out how to cover these stories. They're having the same problem FOX is in regards to discussing the legal woes of Rupert Murdoch. And there's nothing objective about ANY of the news coverage of the Occupy protests. Every single network, EVERY SINGLE ONE is framing the argument for it's viewers and telling them what to think about the protestors and their reason for protesting. I think MSNBC is the only actually conveying the actual protester's message, but even then, they're still telling their viewers what to think about it and not giving an objective presentation (which considering the circumstances, I really don't have a problem with it).

[StevenWells]

05:11 PM on 10/11/2011

I'm on board with much of what you say here, particularly about corporate media control and the parallel between right-left treatment of OWS vs Murdoch. But one of the very reasons so many seem to have difficulty perceiving the meaning here is the insistence on viewing it from a right-left framework, which misses the point: it's economic, not ideological. The framework is top vs bottom, not left vs right.

And to give credit where it's due, there is one media outlet - and only one, that I've seen - which has allowed OWS its own voice: Current. Keith Olbermann read their entire declaration on air, and it's been entirely ignored by the rest of media, as far as I know.

These protests are unique in this era of modern media, all of which are unprepared for it and too busy engaging in analysis - or spin - to listen. But it's still early days.

[tacevad]

03:22 PM on 10/11/2011

reminiscent of Paul Harvey's "the rest of the story" segments. Thank you Chris

[webwzrd]

01:51 PM on 10/11/2011

She is nothing more than a corporate shill and has no business as serious journalist. Her objective credibility has gone down the tubes with millions of prospective viewers. I for one, will never watch her show. She belongs on CNBC or Fox, not a serious news network.

Then again, CNN as a serious and objective NEWS network is becoming more debatable every day.

[syds180turn]

01:02 PM on 10/11/2011

I saw her report from the Occupy Wall Street site and she was condescending, elitist and mocking. But what does anyone expect...she was one of the Wall Street hotshots and she is still a mouthpiece for them on her show. She'll never say anything anti-Wall Street, anti-big business or anti-corporation because she knows full well what side her bread is buttered on. I honestly use to like CNN but after they put all of these bubble-brained airheads on there masquerading as hard-hitting journalists, it has made me tune them out. Erin Burnett was put in place to do exactly what she did...discredit anything or anyone that remotely calls big-business on the carpet.