“FBN is just plain dumb”

Liza Featherstone looks at Fox Business News:

At times, FBN is just plain dumb. Some of the Murdoch Playmates are genuine bimbos, while others play their dopey roles convincingly, and the choice of material they’re given isn’t pretty. One morning, Alexis Glick, the lusciously made-up anchor—also a Columbia graduate who has worked as an equity analyst for Goldman Sachs and directed New York Stock Exchange floor operations at Morgan Stanley, though you’d never guess it from her breathless on-air persona—dizzily conducts an inspiring interview with a woman who has broken the glass ceiling in the all-important industry of competitive beach volleyball. A few other critical, breaking stories on FBN, as the American economy careened into chaos and uncertainty, included a check-cashing fraud involving a corpse, and “the Meanest Mom on the Planet” (she sold her teenage son’s car after finding booze under the seat!). There’s no doubt that CNBC is more journalistically serious than Fox. Almost any random dial-flipping will provide the contrast, but here’s just one: While CNBC featured New York Times columnist David Leonhardt explaining substantive economic policy differences among the Republican candidates, Fox was reporting that despite her scandalous pregnancy, people are still watching Jamie Lynn Spears’s TV show.

According to Neilson, just 6,300 people watch FBN.

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on March 12th, 2008 at 7:58 am

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