Are Highly-Educated, High-Income Younger Women Biased Against Women Candidates?
Every African-American guest on every TV show we watch has been visibly and deeply proud of the accomplishments of Senator Obama. This is true even wh...
Category: Television Media
New York (Times & CNBC) vs. Washington (Post & MSNBC) – III
In our article “New York Times vs. Washington Post”on June 28, we listed some structural reasons why the New York Times is pulling so far ahead of t...
Are CNBC Anchors on a Mission Against US Treasuries? – A Viewer’s Perpsectives
Editor’s Note: This is an article about CNBC and Financial Television media in general. It is most definitely NOT an investment article. Readers sho...
Shabana Azmi on “Indian Democracy is unfair to Muslims” – Our views and the Relevance to America
We have been fans of Shabana Azmi for years. She is one of Bollywood’s great actors and her films have brought us joy. A few days ago, Ms. Azmi made a ser...
Did CNBC Management give us a Market Signal – Yes they did
On July 5, 2008, CNBC Management announced a change in their evening schedule: They replaced the daily 8 pm telecast of CNBC’s Fast Money, an aggressive r...
Afghanistan-Pakistan – Will the Sins of England be visited Upon America?
Today a great deal of media attention is focused on the North West Frontier Province (“NWFP“) of today’s Pakistan and the rapidly increasing c...
Why are they called “Stans” and why is “Pak-i-Stan” unique?
Who can forget the wit of Donald Rumsfeld and especially his question about all the “Stans”. Mr. Rumsfeld was joking about the fact that names ...
Don’t you wish Donald Rumsfeld knew Bollywood and Cricket? – You will after reading this Article
We recall an article in the New York Times in late 2001 about US Special Forces trying to teach Baseball to Afghans. This was a part of Mr. Donald Rumsfeld...
Jim Cramer on Ben Bernanke – Fair in August 2007 and Unfair in August 2008
One year ago, Jim Cramer went on a self-described “rant” against Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman, on CNBC. Just in case, you have not hea...
CNBC Stars – Bartiromo and Burnett – A Bollywood Rasik’s Perspective
In our earlier article on CNBC (Watching CNBC – A Bollywood Rasik’s Perspective – July 12), we drew a humorous analogy between the rumor...