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To: Terry Whitman who wrote (76737)	11/23/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Guys, Guys, Guys... How could we have missed this controversial article in the NY Times? This is a shame for this thread. But I am ROTFLMAO! -------- nypostonline.com CNBC TRASHES TIMES By PAUL THARP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's an open war of insult-slinging between CNBC and The New York Times. Viewers who tuned in yesterday morning to the financial network heard a rare bombardment of the Times by three on-air stars -- over a Times article that called one of the TV stars an "idiot" and labeled another "fatso." In the Sunday Magazine cover story on day traders, writer Matthew Klam cited CNBC for "dumb one-liners from financial anchorpeople" and lashed into on-air reporters Joe Kernan and David Faber. "Kernan and his sidekick, David Faber, have nicknames. Faber is the Brain, the implication being that he's an idiot; Joe Kernan is the sweet and innocent Big Kahuna." Klam was less kind about their CNBC morning anchor Mark Haines, calling Haines "that fatso boss and just the type of avuncular golfer with a gruff voice you'd expect to anchor a daily show on money." The article also referred to Business Center host Ron Insana as "Mr. Negative." Just six minutes into the CNBC show "Squawk Box," CNBC went on the attack. Kernan: "How long have I told you about The New York Times -- all the news that's fit to tint." Anchorman Haines tore into Klam's financial credentials, as the author of a story collection, "Sam the Cat and Other Stories" due in March from Random House, and a few fiction articles in The New Yorker. Later in the show, Haines said: "How dense do you have to be to think that? How dense do you have to be to print that? Don't the editors at the Times think about these things? " Klam also took a shot at CNBC's women, whom he claimed didn't merit nicknames. "There's boring Kathleen Hays. There's Liz Claman, the giant swimsuit model in a tight skirt and sweater set," Klam wrote. "And then there are the rare goddesses: Amanda Grove at Instinet, Maria Bartiromo with the hypnotic shiny lips, who from the floor of the NYSE gives an ‘Alice in Wonderland' feel to her reports, drowning in a sea of men, the camera looking down on her from on high." The Times had no comment.