When Bartiromo introduces billionaire, she's "not a journalist"

When Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman — who has been in the news a lot lately due to his pay and his firm’s IPO — was introduced at a fundraising dinner Monday night at the New York Public Library, CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo did the honor, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Dennis Berman, writing on the paper’s Deal Journal blog.Â

Berman wrote, “A touch of boardroom-speak crept into his speech when he declared CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo’s introduction of him as being ‘on point.’

“For her part, Bartiromo said she was introducing Schwarzman ‘not as a journalist’ but as a friend. She called Schwarzman ‘truly a wealth creator’; a ‘winner’; someone who ‘loves the camera, likes the attention, and it loves him.’

“‘Steve,’ Bartiromo said, ‘you’re a pioneer. There’s no other way to look at it. It’s all good.'”

Read more here. Excuse me, but if Bartiromo wasn’t a journalist, would she even be there? You can’t turn when you’re a journalist and when you’re not off and on like a light switch.