{"id":2498,"date":"2009-02-09T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2009-02-09T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T23:59:12","slug":"must-see-reality-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/09\/must-see-reality-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Must See Reality TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/15840232?video=1027496846&amp;play=1\">this MSNBC clip<\/a> in the context of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/surreal_--_and_must-see.php\">this remark from a reader of TPM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s what JC wrote: &#8220;In this clip, Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb are still being treated as a circus sideshow by CNBC&#8230; They&#8217;re predicting the end of finance, and offering the only clear path out of this mess that I&#8217;ve seen offered (with the knowledge to back it up), and CNBC keeps asking them for stock tips. It&#8217;s ludicrous. Wall Street media &#8212; CNBC at least &#8212; doesn&#8217;t realize how bad this is yet. They&#8217;re stuck in a bubble where they think everything will go back to normal in a few months&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He hits it spot on. These two guys are talking about a deep structural crisis in the world economy. And these CNBC yahoos can&#8217;t stop asking for stock tips. Really surreal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this post was a wholesale ripoff of TPM, but they were too on-point to do it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to see this MSNBC clip in the context of this remark from a reader of TPM: Here&#8217;s what JC wrote: &#8220;In this clip, Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb are still being treated as a circus sideshow by CNBC&#8230; They&#8217;re predicting the end of finance, and offering the only clear path out of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}