The NYTIMES article is very good. I've taken the liberity to extract the small part that has CNBC so riled up.
"Out of one eye, Dave always watches CNBC on a television beside his desk, every day, eight or nine hours a day, a show with no plot, no characters, unless you count the "Truman Show" world-in-a-bubble effect of dumb one-liners from financial-news anchorpeople. CNBC's Joe Kernen complains about his damaged microphone. "I bet Mr. Rogers never has to deal with this," Kernen says. Dave laughs and says: "Jeez! They are so funny. Silly guys." Kernen and his sidekick, David Faber, have nicknames. Faber is the Brain, the implication being that he's an idiot; Joe Kernen is the sweet and innocent Big Kahuna. Mark Haines is their fatso boss and just the type of avuncular golfer with a gruff voice you'd expect to anchor a daily show on money.
There are women, too, but they have no nicknames, they take no comedic leaps and so they seem less important. There's boring Kathleen Hays. There's Liz Claman, the giant swimsuit model in a tight skirt and sweater set. And then there are the rare goddesses: Amanda Grove at Instinet, Maria Bartiromo with the hypnotic shiny lips, who, from the floor of the N.Y.S.E., gives an "Alice in Wonderland" feel to her reports, drowning in a sea of men, the camera looking down on her from on high."
Credit NYTIMES Magazine.
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