Jon Stewart mano a mano con Jim Cramer from CNBC – Traída a ustedes por Pay Per View
Pueden ver todo el episodio en el sitio web de The Daily Show. Acá les pondré la parte que creo fue la más sobresaliente.
Parte III (video inédito y contiene unas cuantas ‘malas’ palabras’)
Las reacciones no se han hecho esperar.
The crowd at Comedy Central’s studio cheered because it was good populism, well aimed and well delivered. And Cramer, the usually peripatetic host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” sat and took it, mostly, like a schoolboy willing to let the teacher go on in hopes of still being allowed to graduate.
Chicago Tribune (h/o to HEAT at the Daily Kos)
Y hasta el vocero de la casa blanca disfrutó la entrevista.
Robert Gibbs en su usual tono calmado aventó lajazos también:
I am not surprised that the video of Mr. Cramer’s appearance doesn’t appear on CNBC’s website today.
Jon mostró compostura y clase. Sí, le dio un gran sermón a Cramer; sin embargo, el lajazo más grande se lo aventó a la cadena de CNBC ya que Cramer es solamente uno, entre todos los periodistas y comentaristas de la cadena quienes la regaron por completo desempeñando su trabajo.
En este episodio vimos a un Jon engrandecido. ¿Vimos a un Jon meramente comediante o a un periodista cachimbón quien también tiene un muy buen sentido del humor? Sin duda alguna, creo que Jon le dio cátedra a la mayoría de los periodistas que nos desinforman cada día.
3 Comments
Tania
I thought it was a great, albeit painful, interview. Cramer got his ass handed to him, although to his credit he had the balls to show up in the first place. I’d like to see if anyone else from CNBC would do the same (Santelli, I’m looking right at you).
I commend Jon Stewart for stepping up and asking the hard questions that needed to be asked, but am somewhat disturbed that it took a comedian to finally call these people out. As harsh as he was on Cramer, I appreciate that Jon made it a point to clarify that he was condemning the entire network and that Cramer was the unfortunate default whip boy.
I read some of the comments on TheChigacoTribune.com and thought they were interesting. Someone said that it is much easier to be holier-than-thou after that fact and someone else challenged Jon to try and pick stocks himself and tell us exactly where the economy is headed (since he seems to know so much). I feel these people missed the point entirely. It’s not a matter of getting stocks right or wrong, it’s a matter of responsibility.
I was really surprised at how many people were upset because they thought Jon had been mean. His not being nice, not his knowledge (or lack thereof) of the economy, was the main critique. I agree that the interview was brutal, but I think it had to be. CNBC touted itself as the messiah of the financial world. Now that the economy is in the toilet, a slap on the wrist will not do.
orlando
No doubt this was an interview that needs to be viewed in Journalism 101 classes.
I don’t know if you saw Katie Couric. One of the reporters there, Jeff Greenfield, did a segment on the interview. At the end he says:
But the real question is this: How do we get the hard questions asked before things go wrong? That is the very serious question the late-night comedian was raising.
I don’t know if you ever watched the video when Jon Stewart went and took the guys from Crossfire. It was magnificent as well! The show was cancelled soon after that!
orlando
Si tenés unos 30 minutos, te recomiendo que veás la entrevista que le hizo Bill Moyers a Jon Stewart. Está buenísima. Pienso que con esta última entrevista, Jon ha puesto un sentimiento de urgencia. Espero que la gente se ponga las pilas y demanden que los periodistas hagan su trabajo. Bill Moyers es un periodista al que deberían de emular los demás periodistas.