Matthews Ignores CNBC Promise of ‘Economic Debate

Jeff Poor
October 9th, 2007 8:17 PM
 

GOP Debate Live Thread

Matthew Sheffield
October 9th, 2007 3:20 PM
The GOP presidential candidates will be debating this afternoon at 4:00pm Eastern. This will be the first debate in which Fred Thompson will be participating.Discuss the debate on this thread or (if you are a registered NB user), join the live chat here.
 

NBC Rains on Rate Cut: ‘Beware of the Downside of Any Economic Uptur

Noel Sheppard
September 19th, 2007 10:32 AM
In case you were out of the country and missed it, the Federal Reserve on Tuesday surprisingly cut two key interest rates by a half percentage point - twice what most analysts expected - causing one of the largest one-day rallies on Wall Street in years. Yet, the folks on the "NBC Nightly News" seemed a tad unhappy with the Fed's move, as anchor Brian Williams wondered "is it good for everyone…
 

Media's Volatile Coverage of Stock Market: 'Armageddon' or 'The Sky's

Julia A. Seymour
August 15th, 2007 5:52 PM
As the stock market went up and down over the past few weeks, media coverage also bounced from end-of-the-world rhetoric to rational analysis.CNBC’s Jim Cramer went on an impassioned rant August 6 calling for the Fed to reduce interest rates.“Bernanke needs to open the discount window. That is how bad things are out there … in the fixed income markets we have Armageddon,” said Cramer on “Stop…