Olen writes, “There were several major follow-up fails. When asked about retirement policy, Carly Fiorina argued that the federal government has no business setting a minimum wage. She wasn’t asked to elaborate. When Rubio was asked about his somewhat-shabby personal finances, and mentioned he owned a home near his parents, no one thought to ask about his history of buying homes with zero-percent-down loans.
“There was nothing Quick or Harwood—who generally remained calm and managed to ask decent questions—could do to make up for this circus.
“All in all, CNBC feels like a guest who stayed at the party too long. Its stock ticker was the signature visual of the dotcom-boom era. Even in 2008, it managed to average between 250,000 and 300,000 viewers during its prime weekday morning and afternoon viewing times. Now it’s notching less than half that, and the network has been reduced to claiming that even people who are in the presence of a television tuned into the network at a broker’s office or hotel gym count as viewers.
“Jim Cramer has never really recovered from Jon Stewart’s evisceration of his on-air work. Maria Bartiromo, the Money Honey, has decamped for Fox Business. And a debate that the network hoped could revive its mojo only revealed how over the hill it truly is. No doubt CNBC got ratings Wednesday evening. But I highly doubt that what transpired on air convinced any new viewers they should tune back in.”
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