Michael Shulman

Review of CNBC

High points: Sorkin and Leesman, most guests good,...

High points: Sorkin and Leesman, most guests good, some guests are excellent. Broad-ranging info is provided both on markets and investing - most of former more useful than latter, but that is how it is on Wall Street.

Low points: Joe Kernen: "no regulations are good, all politicians are incompetent except maybe certain ones who know business", etc. etc. Any government intervention is socialism, of course, for Kernen. Everyone would be rich except the lazy people, if the government would only get out of the way of free enterprise, unfettered concentration of capital, and unlimited executive compensation blah blah blah. Kernen is stuck in this black and white world of the Bush era, bewildered at the realities of the present and stuck in a republican rhetoric that is rapidly becoming a shrinking voice except in his own brain. He needs to be back-burnered.

CNBC needs sound reporting, not Kernen's reflex politics. I would take Sorkin as lead any day, as a sound, balanced lead, or Becky Quick or Leesman. I turn CNBC off when Kernen starts up. I would watch twice as much CNBC without Kernen, and I believe that is true for a growing number of viewers.