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Fox Business Network Slams CNBC In New Ad Airing On Time Warner Cable

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FOX Business Network has bought ads on Time Warner Cable that directly criticize CNBC’s lacking coverage of the U.S. credit downgrade over a week ago.

While FBN and Bloomberg News were airing live coverage of the breaking downgrade news and President Obama’s address the previous Sunday announcing a debt ceiling deal, according to the Associated Press, CNBC continued to air its pre-taped programming.

The FBN ad boasts their news team was “moving faster, working harder,” and asks “Where was CNBC?” cutting to the requisite cricket-chirping. Fox buying ad time on Time Warner Cable means that they are boldly challenging a rival on their home turf. The ad campaign is expected to run throughout the week (though the ad has been conspicuously absent since Monday afternoon), and will begin airing in Philadelphia next week.

Watch the ad below, courtesy of YouTube:

h/t Daily News

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  • Anonymous

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    LOL

  • BatboysDad

    CNBC is still part of the family that has to promote the President!

    The mission is to “Follow the orders from on top at all Costs”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Poor, poor FBN. Few fans. Never able to distinguish the line dividing business and economics from politics and ideology. No international presence. No credibility. 

  • ROTFLMAO

    You are a F*ing Idiot!

  • Anonymous

    Sort of like you.

  • Anonymous

    If Fox Business Channel falls in the forest, and no one is watching, does Neil Cavuto’s fat head shake uncontrollably?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    All the Marys in Heaven! What a bombshell today in the UK! Evidence has surfaced tending to suggest that the Murdochs knew about the voice mail hacking from a very, very early date in the criminal conspiracy. From the Guardian:

    “The most damaging of all is the implication that Clive Goodman, the royal
    reporter jailed for hacking in 2007, was encouraged or induced by News
    International executives to withhold the full truth about the extent of
    hacking from police and the courts. The Goodman letter makes clear that he knew in 2007 what we all now know – that hacking was widespread at the paper.Second
    to that in importance is the evidence suggesting Goodman was paid
    nearly a quarter of a million pounds by the company after his release
    from jail – a far higher sum than the company previously claimed, and
    indeed a sum so high that to many eyes it suggests that News
    International bought the silence of employees.
    As for James Murdoch, he is haunted now by 10 words he uttered to MPs, which he will now have to defend: “No, I was not aware of that at the time.”
    He
    was telling Watson he was unaware of the famous “for Neville” email at
    the time he authorised a half-million-plus payment to Gordon Taylor in
    2008 to withdraw his legal case about hacking and remain silent. That
    email offered – on any normal reading – firm evidence that Goodman had
    not been the only News of the World reporter involved in illegal
    hacking.
    There were two people in the room with James Murdoch that
    day in 2008. Both have now asserted firmly that not only was he aware
    of the email, but it was shown to him there and then. They are Tom Crone, former legal chief of News Group Newspapers, and Colin Myler, former News of the World editor.”

    Followed by the conclusion:

    “James Murdoch, virtually the last man standing at News International,
    may not be facing jail, but he will struggle to argue his way out of
    this corner. When he appeared before MPs beside his father he chose a
    strategy of bluster and blaming others. Predictably, those others have
    bitten back and as a result James must be finished as a company
    executive in the UK. It is very difficult to believe that a man so
    compromised in this country could ever hold a global role at News
    Corporation either.”

    Fresh, big and exciting developments about this crime-riddled company!

  • Anonymous

    This is kind of a non-story to me, but it does make me curious about CNBC’s motivations in down playing the downgrade.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You don’t raise a bad point. On reflection, it appears more and more like the S&P downgrade is a mistake, an anomaly. Today, Fitch reaffirmed US “AAA” status, so we have two (2) agencies, with Moody and Fitch indicating that the third, S&P was wrong. Now, we didn’t know that at the time of the downgrade. Maybe, CNBC was just being cautious, and FBN, wanting to vilify President Obama, over-stated the matter. Just an idea.

  • Anonymous

    And still no body cares!

  • richs

    Who was that the real racist was putting down for cutting and pasting?  Itself?

  • Anonymous

    People who abhor seeking the truth don’t care.

  • Anonymous

    I’m no NewsCorp. fan, but, let’s remember when Fixed Noise was launched — it loss I believe somewhere north of $5 billion before it turned a profit.

  • Anonymous

    Is Fox Business the channel that shows that same old scary mummy movie every day from 6-9AM?

  • ImNotBlue

    So CNBC was being cautious in reporting that S&P had downgraded the United States?  What?  That doesn’t make sense.

    They can argue that the downgrade was wrong, but they can’t be “cautious” about it having happened.

  • ImNotBlue

    Source, please.

    And aren’t you the one who normally argues about people “Staying on topic.”

  • ImNotBlue

    Just admit for a moment that you’ve never seen the network, and would be saying this no matter what the network was about.

    It’s a “FOX” company, so you hate it.  Just be honest.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    The total ignorance FOX News? showed towards Ron Paul through the Iowa Polls has alienated me far away from the FOX channels.. They prove themselves totally un-news worthy and way to biased even against their own base. I don’t want Murdoch telling me who to vote for. I will make up my own mind. Fox totally lost it in shock and awe news reporting…  I can watch sitcoms on other stations..

  • Anonymous

    All hail the narrative! TRVTH.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=701491190 Donald P. Trudel

    The fishing trip does look like the better choice to me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    This is the type of line that makes Real Royal crazy and make silly comments.

    Fox buying ad time on Time Warner Cable means that they are boldly challenging a rival on their home turf.

  • Anonymous

    Agree, going fishing would make for a nice break from having your head in the sand.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Does Real Royal ever make any comments that AREN’T silly? He sets himself a low bar every day.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    CNBC being cautious reporting on the downgrade is like ESPN being cautious on the NFL lockout – IT’S THEIR FREAKIN’ JOBS to pay attention to that stuff!

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Actually, dumbass, Fox has given Ron Paul more air time than the other channels, albeit not very much to begin with, but I don’t see much about him on MESSNBC or CNN.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Well obviously you missed the Iowa polls talking heads on fox.. talk about dumbass.. thanks for making yourself so clear..Murdochs nephew?

  • Anonymous

    Follow the “Ailes” orders “”at all costs” and service only the “tea hates”,….. you’re right that’s “Fox”.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure FOX Business will have that luxury, with Rupert’s criminal attorneys’ fees, prison bribes, Wendy’s hourly rate (double for GFE), etc. it will all soon be gone.

  • RDD

    Yves Smith: Propaganda or ‘Uncertainty’?
    We keep being told that uncertainty is the reason businesses aren’t
    hiring. But Yves Smith Creator of the blog Naked Capitalism and author
    of “Econned” explains why that excuse is not only destructive, but
    “propaganda that needs to be laughed out of the room”.

    http://youtu.be/JPa2s-HYuvE

  • RDD

    Yves Smith: Propaganda or ‘Uncertainty’?
    We keep being told that uncertainty is the reason businesses aren’t
    hiring. But Yves Smith Creator of the blog Naked Capitalism and author
    of “Econned” explains why that excuse is not only destructive, but
    “propaganda that needs to be laughed out of the room”.

    http://youtu.be/JPa2s-HYuvE

  • RDD

    Yves Smith: Propaganda or ‘Uncertainty’?
    We keep being told that uncertainty is the reason businesses aren’t
    hiring. But Yves Smith Creator of the blog Naked Capitalism and author
    of “Econned” explains why that excuse is not only destructive, but
    “propaganda that needs to be laughed out of the room”.

    http://youtu.be/JPa2s-HYuvE

  • RDD

    Yves Smith: Propaganda or ‘Uncertainty’?
    We keep being told that uncertainty is the reason businesses aren’t
    hiring. But Yves Smith Creator of the blog Naked Capitalism and author
    of “Econned” explains why that excuse is not only destructive, but
    “propaganda that needs to be laughed out of the room”.

    http://youtu.be/JPa2s-HYuvE

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    CNBC, where you go to not get the financial news you need.

    Have you ever listened to some of the idiots they have on that channel?

    They are the kicking toy of commenters at ZeroHedge.

  • Hagen619dj

    Was that suppose to make sense?

  • Hagen619dj

    What do you suppose the profit came from.  Inquiring minds want to know????

  • Anonymous

    It obviously came from advertising dollars…but, it required deep pockets to sustain those loses for the first 5 years.

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