Legendary Wall Streeter Ken Langone, who once attempted to purchase the New York Stock Exchange, hurled insults at the New York Times this morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He was describing an op-ed he’s been working on for the Wall Street Journal about his long battle with disgraced former New York governor and Eliot Spitzer. One of the co-hosts of the program asked him about whether he might try to get it in the New York Times.
“I don’t even try with the Times,” Langone said. “Why write for some newspaper you don’t even read? I mean, it doesn’t make sense.”
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Another worthless Carney post. Dude, is this the best you can do??
Must be trying to suck-up to CNBC. There are two other good busines news outlets on cable and XM radio……Bloomberg and FOX. In fairness John, you should acknowledge the fact that someone is going to lose in this race and I would bet I have a good idea who.
10:42,
if you think fox business news is anything other than a joke, you’ve been smoking some serious good stuff.
cnbc is awful, and fox makes cnbc look like a business beacon.
10:42, maybe you should target some of that angst towards your fake messiah and the way he is being marketed. Pre-scripted speeches, pre-scripted meeting, pre-scripted photo-ops. Even some liberal media folks (those with half a brain) are getting pissed off at the totally packaged deal being handed out sucked dry of any authenticity or spontaneity.
And guess what that makes people who are lapping the show up without questions? Schmucks.
10:48AM…….unfortunately for you, it takes a semblance of a brain to understand business news. Something you would know nothing about.
10:50 am…..Schmucks?…..you would know.
Langone’s comments illustrate a very important point that thus far has not been written about. We have all seen the precipitous decline in the Times’ circulation, but the demographic of that decline is even more important. My paper guy, in a wealthy Westchester suburb, used to take delivery of 900 Sunday papers several years ago, and he always sold out. Now he takes delivery of 130 copies, and has returns every week. The Times is losing the mover & shaker crowd much faster than Joe and Mary Carafe (W’Chester version of Joe Six-Pack. It has ceased to be the paper of record and now is just a microphone for the far left. McCain doesn’t need the Times anymore than Langone does.
10:51 Rupert is that you?
#8, I think the NYT is not really the mouthpiece of the far left but rather the OLD communists / hippies.
The new far left resided on dailykos/moveon. Even they have given up on the NYT.
The NYT may be losing ground, but it is still the standard other papers are measured against. Are you going to get your international news out of the WSJ? The WSJ also covers Albany, the budget, the mayor, and life in the five boroughs, not. And I love the comprehensive arts coverage in the WSJ! Or the Daily News, or God forbid, the New York Post.
@12:52
Don’t know how long you’ve been reading the Old Gray Lady, but she is a shell of her former self, across all the sections. First, they need to go back to the original 4 instead of 7 or 8. Secondly, why do they feel it appropriate to start the news on page six, perhaps an unintentional admission of guilt? It is hollow in its analysis, strident in tone, condescending in attitude, and cloisterred in its outlook. It is not the standard any longer. That position no longer exists. Hopefully within ten years they’ll all be gone and we can rely on linked dispatches from disinterested parties around the world. Absolutely anyone can be a reporter. All you need to do is be there. Do you know how many of the NYT sories on Iraq were written in Iraq? Less than 10%!
#11,
The demographic that reads a newspaper for “comprehensive arts coverage” is dying (literally). And that decline is also reflected in the NYT circulation figures.
The NYT is no longer a newspaper- it has become a position paper and its dwindling circulation is a result of that
I made the decision about a year ago to never read the NYT again. Worthless commie rag.
I made the decision about a year ago to never read the NYT again. Worthless commie rag.