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jim goldman
How CNBC's Apple Man Stands Tall
Another Apple conference means another chance for Jim Goldman to deliver Apple talking points into CNBC cameras. The network's famously petit Silicon Valley bureau chief was careful to bring his booster box. A bystander snapped us some pictures. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Niko Bellic: Which Eastern European dictator-run brain washing TV station had that sign language person in the corner who sabotaged it by... 2 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Yahoo CEO Smacks Down Second Reporter
Carol Bartz is on a rampage. First the Yahoo CEO delivered a "fuck you" to Kara Swisher of All Things Digital. At least that half-joking rebuke was somewhat cordial; today Bartz cut off CNBC's Jim Goldman with an icy "excuse me" at the start of an on-air smackdown. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by kathotdog: I don't find it endearing at all that this woman cannot make it through a Q&A or a speech without... 7 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
How Apple's Pet Reporter Stole His Talking Points
Jim Goldman, the shameless Apple parrot and CNBC correspondent, did his best for the computer company in an on-air price comparison the other day. But he had to lift his argument wholesale. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by badasscat: Wait, what?? Macs do not come with anti-virus, Photoshop, *or* a Geek squad visit. And wtf is "multimedia software"? ... 3 Responses | Other threads
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eating disorders
Barry Diller: Picky Eater
Heterosexual business magnate Barry Diller was a guest on CNBC's Power Lunch today, which was shot on location at the Four Seasons. And he freaked out when they tried to make him eat. More »
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By John CookComment by Smitros: I'm wondering why "heterosexual" is significant here. [Insert sociolinguistic stuff about marked and unmarked conditions, etc.] Most business magnate type... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Bloggers Scoop CNBC Again at Apple Shareholder Meeting
Poor Jim Goldman! The CNBC reporter keeps coming up empty-handed on Apple scoops. His latest complaint: Apple didn't let him bring a laptop or BlackBerry into its annual shareholder meeting. Bloggers liveblogged it anyway! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by boyonabike: That last line was quite the zinger, Giz. 1 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
CNBC's Charlie Gasparino Drops F-Bomb
What's stupider than debating Wall Street bankers' bonuses? Using obscenities on live television while debating them! That's what Charlie Gasparino, CNBC's lovably loudmouthed on-air commentator did. Click for the clip and transcript. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ADismalScience: In fairness, I wouldn't be able to spend 5 minutes in Dennis Kneale's presence without resorting to profanity. Or punching... 4 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Jim Goldman's Bad Intel
CNBC, the cable business network, claims to have "policies and guidelines" that are "strictly followed." One of them appears to be presenting company flacks as secret "sources." Tech reporter Jim Goldman adheres to it religiously. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Drunken Economist: Another day of yelling heads on C-N-B-WWE, another Valleywag post. Seriously, tho', Owen, the other commenters have a point. Maybe it's... 3 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
A Puffed-Up Reporter's Puffed-Up Sources
CNBC tech reporter Jim Goldman blew the biggest story on his beat by insisting his "sources inside the company" said Apple's Steve Jobs was in tip-top shape. Do these sources even exist? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by cassandra: Owen, stick to financial stuff like this. You are so much better at it. There are a couple of CNBC reporters... 3 Responses | Other threads
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jim goldman
Why CNBC's Tech Reporter Keeps Coming Up Short
There's a reason why CNBC viewers get shortchanged on their tech coverage: Jim Goldman, the network's Silicon Valley bureau chief, is not very tall. It's the kind of thing polite people don't talk about here. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Aaron Altman: What the fuck was this? If you're going to criticize a journalist, can we stick to criticizing his journalism... 10 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
CNBC's 'State of Denial' on Apple CEO's Health
After telling CNBC viewers for weeks that Steve Jobs is "fine," the network's Silicon Valley bureau chief Jim Goldman tried a novel experiment in journalism: Talking to a source who wasn't an Apple flack. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by unclevanya: Wow, Owen. You really aren't going to stop hammering until both Steve and CNBC are dead. Do you want them... 4 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
How Steve Jobs Turned CNBC Into Apple Touts
First clip: A CNBC reporter dishes outsidery snark about Apple's supposedly botched iPhone launch. Second clip: CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau chief guzzles the Apple Kool-Aid. Is this the same network?
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By Owen ThomasComment by ADismalScience: So wait - Gizmodo throws up a post on Job. Today, we find out that the report gets a... 6 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
CNBC Asks If Steve Jobs Has PMS
Having softpedaled rumors of Steve Jobs's failing health, CNBC is falling over itself to catch up to the story — with embarrassing results.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Curves: This insults not only Mr. Jobs, but women as well. I have never seen a situation so lacking in sensitivity... 10 Responses | Other threads
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apple
Steve Jobs Confesses: Too Sick to Work
If you just look at how thin he is, you'd know it. But now Steve Jobs himself has admitted that his declining health is keeping him from taking the Macworld stage tomorrow.
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By Owen ThomasComment by dogcat: Isn't it funny that Jobs and Wozniak both have weight problems, albeit in opposite directions... 7 Responses | Other threads
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hires
Jim Cramer chairman at TheStreet.com
Back when Jim Cramer was an active hedge-fund trader, rather than an on-air fit-thrower for CNBC, he kept his distance from TheStreet.com, lest the site be accused of advancing his portfolio. No such distance now: He's replacing Thomas Clarke as chairman. Clarke remains CEO. [Silicon Alley Insider] -
Google Chrome
Marissa Mayer Chrome-plates the Nasdaq
If you don't believe Google should buy a few 30-second TV spots to hawk its Chrome browser, watch Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience try to explain Chrome to the semitechnical viewers at CNBC. The whole thing falls apart into a meandering talk about faster JavaScript rendering, overlaid with a chart of Google's waffling stock price — the real reason Mayer is on CNBC. I doubt investors changed their GOOG valuations based on Mayer's promise that in the future, crashing one tab in their browser won't take down the whole thing. -
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CNBC's Jim Goldman is not "The Office's" Andy Bernard
It's difficult to get an interview with Steve Jobs. When you finally get one, the temptation surely is to play nice in hopes that you'll get another. But did CNBC's Jim Goldman have to ask such sycophantic questions? After rattling off statistics straight from Apple PR, Goldman asks Jobs, "How surprising is it for you that Mac momentum continues to grow at this level at this time? I mean there's an enormous amount of longevity here." Goldman's slick business-suit looks and his suck-up tone immediately reminded me of one of Goldman's quasi-coworkers at NBC Universal — Dunder-Mifflin's Andy Bernard, played by Ed Helms in NBC's "The Office." Check out the "Best of Andy Bernard" clip below and see if you agree. More »
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Comment by psogle: Nice comparison but Goldman is like 5'1". He brings a crate to stand on for interviews, no lie 1 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in pr
CNBC's editing genius on display in Mark Zuckerberg interview
If you can stand it, it's worth watching a particular excerpt from CNBC's interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg twice. First watch the version CNBC put on the air, embedded above. In that clip, Zuckerberg answers a question sounding sure of himself, speaking in clear, declarative sentences, and smoothly using his talking points, not just rattling them off. Compare it to the clip below of Zuckerberg answering the same question in an unedited version of the interview CNBC reporter Julia Boorstin embedded on her blog. The difference shows CNBC editors' talents — and just how far Zuckerberg has to go before it's safe to put a microphone near him. It all goes downhill after Zuckerberg begins to answer a straightforward softball from Boorstin — "What is the new site design and what does it mean for the user experience?" — by saying, "So for those of you who don't know, I, we just announced, um and launched, started rolling a new site design." More »
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Comment by Shadowlayer: @mleew77: Look lets get real, the facebook that got all the attention and managed to grow to what it is... more » | Other threads
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geek love
CNBC's Becky Quick joins long line of women emailing Jimmy Wales
Call it a strange attraction: Women whose Wikipedia entries aren't to their liking just can't seem to resist taking their case to the site's stubbly cofounder, Jimmy Wales. Even CNBC's Becky Quick struck up a correspondence, she admits in this clip. Unlike Canadian television commentator Rachel Marsden, whose call for help turned into a sexual fling, Quick is married. To a computer programmer. (I can hear you all eating your hearts out.) Why didn't she just ask her husband for help getting her entry edited? Given Wales's reputation, that seems easier.
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By Owen ThomasComment by dogcat: @Rachel Marsden: :) I see what you mean - a match made in heaven. Although I still think it would... more » | Other threads
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clips
How to piss off Jimmy Wales
Watch Jimmy Wales's face as he's introduced in a segment for this morning's episode of Squawk Box on CNBC. Wales has long claimed to be Wikipedia's sole founder — a fact disputed by Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's cofounder. As CNBC's Joe Kernen matter-of-factly describes Wales as the site's cofounder, Wales furrows his brows, starts to open his mouth, darts his eyes back and forth, and then swallows his pride. You can just see him writing a blog post about it in his head.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Troll_2.0: Jimmy Wales, loves hot tailsEverywhere he goes,he leaves slime trails. LOL more » | Other threads
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the sum of all human knowledge
Jimmy Wales namedrops Richard Branson on CNBC
One of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's most charming personality traits is his relentless starfucking. It's a tendency that's exacerbated by his role as spiritual leader of the world's most comprehensive collection of inconsequentially inaccurate details about famous peoples' lives. On CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, note Wales's body language — the shoulder roll, the falsely modest talking-into-his-coffee-cup maneuver — as he chats up New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, making sure to remind viewers that he's totally BFF with Virgin founder Richard Branson.
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By Owen ThomasComment by dannyisme: I can only wonder: does Richard Branson ever namedrop Jimmy Wales's name? more » | Other threads
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yahoo raid
Carl Icahn speaks, slowly, on CNBC Fast Money
Billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn took his Yahoo obsession to the airwaves with a phone-in interview on CNBC's Fast Money yesterday afternoon. In my attempts to distill the over twelve-minute, rambling dialogue with the anchors on the show, the most interesting thing was how guarded and halting Icahn was about his intentions — he revealed little that he, or one of his assistants, hasn't brought up in his many open letters and other lobbying to unseat CEO Jerry Yang, or answer the question "If you succeed in your proxy battle, who says Microsoft will buy?" So with no money quotes to go with, I threw in everything else.
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By Jackson WestComment by macbeach: I uh, totally um, uh yaya duh, agree. more » | Other threads
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clips
Paul Kedrosky's CNBC talk turns into Google, Apple slapfest
Venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky went on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to talk about "tech cyclicality," but ended up talking about NAND flash and listening to Jim Goldman and Joe Kernen talk about Apple and Google's up-and-down stock prices. The bit about flash was boring, but the stock talk was amusing. Have a look — buy, sell or hold?
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clips
Microsoft-Yahoo promises "everything" in the world, says Today Show
On this morning's Today Show, Jim Goldman, CNBC's Silicon Valley bureau chief, said one thing is for sure: Microsoft will not kill the Yahoo brand. "This is one of the world's great brands," Goldman says. Instead, expect more social networking, "the whole idea of community or the idea of getting sort of a relationship — if you will — with the website. Sort of everything you want to do online or in the world you'll be able to do through Microsoft and Yahoo." OK, so that makes no sense. Great analysis, Jim.
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Comment by smells_like_old_coffee: Ditto on the apple play... ditch the media group & bring in iTunes to the Y! mix. more » | Other threads
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yahoo
Overworked tech reporter loses mind on national TV
Here's Dylan Ratigan of CNBC, going off on the Microsoft-Yahoo merger. And we do mean going off. Ratigan is a veteran of Bloomberg News, a serious business journalist. But not in this clip. No, in this clip, it's clear that a madness has begun to creep across Ratigan's cool facade. Why? Might it be that he, the stallwart reporter, has been up since dawn covering today's news? Bringing you people constant updates on Microsoft and Yahoo? Downing coffee and skipping meals? Might that be why he's a little loopy? A little crazy? A little giddy? Just like the rest of us hacks? Hallelujah say yeah!
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Comment by Dror Poleg: @macbeach: Hallelujah simply means "Praise God". It combines the Hebrew verb Hallelujah (praise), with one of God's Hebrew names -... more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
CNBC: Keep America great with porn
Has Fox Business Network put a scare in CNBC? Not by the numbers, but by the channel's content, we'd say so. CNBC has picked up on Rupert Murdoch's "sex sells" business-network strategy. As part of its "Keeping America Great" series, CNBC aired a segment on "Sex and the Tech Revolution" from the AVN 2008 (NSFW) adult-entertainment convention in Las Vegas. -
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By Owen ThomasComment by Scobleizer: Fetterman: I was not paid by any of the three to pimp them. Seagate is no longer a sponsor of... more » | Other threads
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ces 2008
Robert Scoble, on CNBC, is more important than you
I'm at CES and have been looking around for Robert Scoble. After literally dozens of seconds of futile searching, I decided to text him and got this as a response. CNBC? Bobby, what happened to online-only video? I thought that was the future!
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Comment by scogle: for the record (and so I don't look like an idiot) 1) I didn't know that it was on the... more » | Other threads
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predictions
CNBC's resident lunatic, Jim Cramer, makes predictions for '08
CNBC's Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, dropped his predictions for 2008 in New York magazine this week. Along with some safe bets like "oil goes up" and "Goldman Sachs makes a lot of money," Cramer throws out some unlikely but not off-the-wall predictions about Verizon and Apple. But then when he gets to Google, he goes off the deep end. More »
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Comment by Slartey: I stumbled on this program a year or so ago, and tracked some of his advice. Suffice to say, it's... more » | Other threads
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news corp.
Fox Business ratings fall short of revolutionary
Early ratings for Rupert Murdoch's Fox Business Network have materialized, and the news isn't pretty. According to Nielsen Media Research, about 6,300 households on any given weekday are tuning in. Compare that to the 283,000 watching rival network CNBC. The number is so low you won't hear it officially from Nielsen researchers, because it doesn't meet their minimum standards for reporting. While it's still early going and Fox only reaches about 30 million households compared to CNBC's 90 million homes, the numbers aren't pretty. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by kompression: Fuck Fox News and anything associated with it. more » | Other threads
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online advertising
Wannabe online-ad giant Microsoft has scored a deal to serve ads for CNBC.com. The site's previous ad provider was soon-to-be-Google-subsidiary DoubleClick. This would be more impressive if Microsoft and NBC didn't already share considerable Web ties, like their MSNBC.com joint venture. [Silicon Alley Insider] -
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By Tim FaulknerComment by sample032: @waynelambright: It's different, especially because of how illiquid real estate is, and because the dollar isn't backed by real estate. Look... more » | Other threads
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breakdowns
Fox Business Network needs spellcheck too
If we're going to make fun of CNBC's inability to spell, we should probably poke fun at Fox Business News as well. In a screenshot from earlier today, the Dow Jones Inustrial Average must be an innovation from News Corp. TVNewser has an interesting quote from an ex-CNBCer: More »
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Comment by Lapp: Really absurb that the companies we depend on for financial news cannot even spell! Go DOW! more » | Other threads
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cnbc
CNBC needs spellcheck
Fox Business's flubs we could blame on the cable channel's teething pangs. But how to explain CNBC, which seemed like a high-school video project gone awry this morning? David Faber, reporting on Citigroup's current woes, said "Look at that: All the financials are up — except Citi!" The problem? Citi was actually up 84 cents, as a graphic showed five seconds later. But wait, there's more! In another graphic, shown above, CNBC had three separate misspellings. Video of the incident is after the jump. More »
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Comment by LeJerque: @Jeremy: Tickers are definitely being typed fast. Watch any news station long enough, and you'll see a typo down... more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by anthropocentric: You really are funny looking. I thought the still-picture was of the playboy guy, and I was going to... more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by mliubinskas: Owen (like me) has a head for blogging! :-) more » | Other threads
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