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Does CNBC’s Kernen wear a toupee?

CNBC anchor Becky Quick took a leaf blower to the head of fellow anchor Joe Kernen on Friday morning to show readers whether Kernen wears a toupee.

The question of the toupee is the most-asked question Kernen receives.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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