Vanity Fair’s Awful Interview With Erin Burnett

Vanity Fair just published an awful interview with CNBC’s Erin Burnett. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the interview is most about the interviewer. The interview is apparently about Mr. Eric Spitznagel’s momentous event of interviewing Burnett, and she’s somehow in the way.
Here’s one example:

If you watch enough cable news, it starts to seem like if AIG or Citibank goes under, we’re all going to be like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes, staring up in disbelief at the disembodied head of the Statue of Liberty and screaming “You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to heeeeeelll!” If we don’t save those companies from bankruptcy, are we headed towards an ape-run dystopia?
(Long pause.) I don’t know. I would say no, but banks and availability of credit are the most basic and important things for an economy. What if the banks had failed? Nobody keeps cash anymore. We think society moves forward, generation after generation, ahead and ahead and ahead. We don’t realize maybe how reliant we are on things that are far from hunting and gathering.

I counted the words. Erin won but the margin was less than 2-to-1.
(One more thing — it wasn’t the disembodied head, but you can clearly see much of the torso.)

Posted by on April 5th, 2010 at 9:52 am


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