CNBC's Dennis Kneale– Good, Bad & Ugly
What has been your experience in interacting with CNBC's Dennis Kneale? Do you work with him? Have you been the subject of his reporting?
What would you like to say to others who are thinking about cooperating with Mr. Kneale on a story? Do you believe he is fair and professional in his dealings? Does he demonstrate a mastery of his subject matter.
We welcome your comments here.
What would you like to say to others who are thinking about cooperating with Mr. Kneale on a story? Do you believe he is fair and professional in his dealings? Does he demonstrate a mastery of his subject matter.
We welcome your comments here.
Dennis is one of the most professional and knowledgable journalists with whom I have ever had the pleasure of even speaking with, much less being interviewed by him. I have always been impressed with both his expansive and deep knowledge of subjects. Plus his humor is outstanding. I also wish I could bottle his engery.
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Dennis is not very enlightened. Sorry to disagree with positive comments about him--but he has no clue about the economy.
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Dennis is so inarticulate that all I can surmise is that his parents are related, or he was born with fetal alcohol syndrome.
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I applaud you for your enthusiasm. Alas when it comes to respecting the people that come on CNBC to be interviewed, your conduct often leaves a lot to be desired. Most recently your extremely unprofessional conduct when dealing with Steve Liesman (April 24th, 2008) and Mr Lise, April 25th, 2008) has left a sour taste. You are appearing one would hope, for the viewer and you do a dis-service to the viewer, who is entitled to hear all points of view of CNBC guests, even if you don't agree with them.
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He may be "award winning" but that still doesnt stop him from being a blind bullish annoying little twit. I hit mute everytime he comes on, to save my sanity. CNBC will be ridding themselves of this top 100 journalist soon.
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I agree but, won't say why. Is there an email address to which we write to ask him something personal?
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How many times can this award winning "journalist" be wrong. Good job CNBC at catering to the lowest common denominator.
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Well!!!! I don't have any idea about Dennis Kneale. But after reading the discussion of this blog it seems that he is sign of hate.
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Dennis Kneale forces us all to hit mute......he is just not appropriate
in any way, shape, or form.
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Just get rid of him. Unprofessional, unpolished extremely biased. he needs to understand his audience are, in general, professionals who can make up their own mind. Simply present the facts, let your interviewees finish their sentences etc. You might also try going to charm school - although I doubt you'd graduate.
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Dennis Kneale is the biggest excuse of a pathetic joke on financial television. CNBC should be ashamed for trying to make him such an upcoming star. With his touting the "great" economy, ignoring inflation, being rude, biased, unprofessional, and wrong on everything, he needs to be canned! Soon
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Useless "advice", simply a waste of airtime. One of the hallmarks of a professional is the ability to recognize changing conditions, realize that past performance is no guarantee of future results and adapt to the changes: that's why buggy whip companies aren't in the Fortune 500 anymore. All during the 2007 and early 2008 season Kneale kept banging the "all is well, all is good" drum even while everyone else around him was recognizing that the game had changed. At first he was simply an idiot, then an annoying idiot, finally a good reason to mute or change the channel. Seriously, I can't think of another personality who has lost so much credibility and become more of an embarrasment to a broadcast network than this fellow. He should/ must be removed from the air, erased from any rolodex's and any producer who even thinks of contacting him should be immediately terminated.
Truly, a first class idiot ... and I should mention that I'm moderating my vocabulary!
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I am a trader, and the only thing that can make me sicker than the markets at times is Dennis Kneale. Maybe if he lost the Elvis Costello look, I'd respect him a little more.....very little.
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Dennis is an ass...he knows nothing about the markets and less about interviewing. CNBC really took two steps backwards when they hires this big bird fool...MUTE!!!!
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I wish I had a way to write this guy but he'd blow off any comments. His stupid comments this week have been about Steve Jobs having PMS when it was reported he had a "hormone" problem. The other basic ignorant one was when he blasted the poor German guy who committed suicide after loosing big $$$ for him and his clients because he shorted Volksgagen. An intelligent, well educated, well rounded person knows that suicide is the result of the most severe clinical Depression. What a stupid, insensitive jerk.
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Hey!!! Mr. Dennis Kneale, I think you will be kicked out of your job soon. it seems from the above comments. Otherwise improve yourself according to the way viewer want to see you. But you are good anyways.
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Regarding all of the current "Kneale is an idiot" blogger outcries, let me say this:
CNBC's Kneale is an exceptionally bright, well educated guy whose credentials are without question. I know this because I grew up with him, went to high school with him, and went to university with him, where we shared a healthy rivalry chasing each others girlfriends. Speak to him one on one and you’ll see (although with surprise, perhaps) that he is well-informed and articulate, with a firm grasp of finance and economics.
I suspect there is a method to his madness and his seemingly inane optimism in a miserable economic environment, a reason for his confrontational, no holds barred manner. It’s his job to agitate, to spur intense discussion and fire up viewers. And he's damn good at it. If he didn't take a contrary position from the majority, we'd all be watching the "Boring Lunch", rather than the Power Lunch.
But, being "Jack Mounteer the Commercial Banker", not "Dennis's Buddy, Jack", I have to chime in on the dissent regarding a couple of his recently published economic opinions.
“Dennis, you're my old friend, so I have to tell it to you straight. I read some of your stuff and watched some of the yackety-yack on CNBC. You, my favorite national TV personality, are either smoking a giant bong filled with hashish, or indulging yourself by taking a contrary ‘Things Aren't That Bad’ position for the sake of firing us all up. I really don't think you believe all of your own banter. Instead, I see your true intent, and commend you on your very successful strategy of becoming a household name, of stirring the pot. Without your lively, sometimes annoying, controversial approach we'd all be yawning, or worse in today’s market environment, just crying.”
As far as the wildly varying opinions regarding your on-air persona, as my Daddy said to me when I was a young man, "Son, it doesn't matter whether they are talkin' good or bad about you, as long as they are talkin' about you".
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I went to UF with Dennis too! (so did thousands of others, of course. UF is huge.) He dated my roommate Amy, but I don't recall you doing so. Amy and I were both in journalism school with him. He was a tireless reporter for the Independent Florida Alligator. Happy memories.
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Mr. Dennis Kneale,I wish you good luck. You are facing a lot of trouble. You have a strong opposition. Well!!! I know you are efficient to cope up with it.
Good luck.......
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I cringe everytime I hear the guy speak -the only reason they let him continue saying stupid things is becuase they need someone to always take the counterpoint to whatever is being talked about. Guys is a class A DuFus. I'm at the point where I turn the show off when he comes on.
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Hey!!! Mr. Dennis Kneale, I think you will be kicked out of your job soon. it seems from the above comments. Otherwise improve yourself according to the way viewer want to see you.
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Dennis Kneale's personality rocks and the way he conducts the interview having the spark and enthusiasm in his eyes, is rare even in the journalist.
He is the master of dealing with the people.
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The punishment for Bernie Madoff should be having to sit next to Dennis Kneale for 150 years and listen to his crap!!!!!
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Hey!!!! every body, I am not familiar about Mr. Dennis Kneale. So I can't make a comment on him but as I read your discussion, it seems that you guys are much furious to him .
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nice blog.i read all the comments.those r very intelligent comment.
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Why are you guys furious to Mr. Dennis Kneale. Try to understand his view, might be possible , he is right.
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Hey!!! Mr. Dennis Kneale, I think you will be kicked out of your job soon. it seems from the above comments. Otherwise improve yourself according to the way viewer want to see you.
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Mr. Mr. Dennis Kneale,I wish you good luck. You are facing a lot of trouble. You have a strong opposition. Well!!! I know you are efficient to cope up with it.
Good luck.......
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Dennis Kneale just finished announcing to his listeners(among them all the technicians he works with) that he doesn't like unions. While scarcely a revelation for Kneale or indeed for CNBC, such comments do not serve CNBC's mission and make viewers think of the financial news channel as an elitist mouthpiece, rather than journalism. Sue Herrera's comment mentioning "no filter between head and mouth" summed Kneale's modus operandi rather well.
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I caught the portion of your recent show where you called the bottom. Ha! I'm saving the video clip to replay over and over again for friends during the coming months as this economy continues to tank.
You're such an obvious shill for Wall St that I expect your stock to rise very fast, your laughing stock that is.
The way you TV types are bitterly clinging to your green shoots mantra is the perfect contra-indicator. This dead cat bounce must be about done, much like the public's affinity for most of the CNBC shills you parade out each night.
You're a dandy dresser though.
Click (as in off),
-shunt
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Thank you for convincing me not to activate my cable and get TV again, so that I can avoid channel scanning across your ****pile of a show. Your rant on bloggers was fantastic. It was something that definitely belonged on a news channel that calls itself professional.
Welcome to the internet "dickweed"
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Dennis, just a quick note you will have critics. But just like Frank Zappa told Alice Cooper when Alice had been accused of doing unspeakable things on stage during shows after Alice said he didn't do that...Zappa told him not to tell anyone, since ANY press is good press. Some of us really appreciate your enthusiasm, even though I personally don't understand markets all that much. Your enthusiasm is rare and your excitement is catching. As for your resemblance to silly characters I really don't see it...sorry. So keep it coming and we will keep watching.
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Thanks for your rant against zero hedge I had never heard of zero hedge but thanks to you I now like zero hedge. also I have for really a long time thought you were a complete jackoff, a freaking idiot and this just proves it! keep up the good work you dweeb.
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Dennis Kneale is dead wrong about the minimum wage. He should be forced to work under one of the two unions at ShopRite in north New Jersey at $9/hr, where both of their forced unions allow all workers' hours to be reduced to as low as 12 hours per week, and managers gleefully toy with workers' hours week-to-week, such that workers have no idea what hours and income for the next week will be until the Friday night before. Kneale should be forced to work a few weeks at one of these local sweat-shops and enjoy the experience of trying to support even a family of one on this part-time wage, not to mention the rotten non-lifestyle of not knowing what next week has been planned for you by management. But Kneale's response is only that we have the responsibility to find another job. Ha! Thanks much, Dennis, but did you ever consider that this is exactly what we all seek to do if we could...do you have any ideas? Meanwhile, DO THE MATH ON THE WAGE, AND PART-TIME HOURS, YOU ARROGANT ASSHOLE!!!
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So how about it, Mr. Kneale? Have you, as a union hater, applied for a job at one of the closed-shop retailers? It could be a real "scoop" for you to show how company unions do none of us any good. This is worse than slave labor, right here in the US, but given the entrenched unions, but there is no possibility for organizing our way out of it. Spend a few weeks working with us. Then consider some real solutions for the rest of us. May I suggest some legislation enforcing the 40-hour work week (no part-time hours game-playing) at a livable minimum wage?
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Some "experts" may try to use funky math to try to justify the excessive use of part-time workers at closed union retail shops as "efficient". But that can be countered with figures including the unnecessarily top-heavy management requirements for week-to-week determination of part-time worker hours, excessive worker turnover, re-recruiting, re-screening, re-hiring, plus poor morale and lack of customer satisfaction due to all of the above. The current revolving door system of high turnover part-time workers does not work efficiently, and that can be proven numerically. If good people are given a good reason to work within a stable, liveable environment, then the corporate bottom lines will naturally improve as well.
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I feel Dennis knows the price of everything and the cost of nothing.
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Now I know why there are so many "blogs" about Mr. Kneale It seems that "CNBC reports" is unavailable for comment. I think he left something out about all those "poor" rich guys paying all the taxes: 1) they "make" all the money, (notice I didn't say earn); 2)their overall tax rate is just barely higher than the "average middle class taxpayer" I could go on about post offfice boxes in the Cayman Islands and etc.but I'm sure he "makes" enough to be aware of all that.
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Dennis kneale is a CLOWN! You mock Peter Schiff but he was right. What have you ever done except cheerlead for the Goldman and Citi crowd. Now you say the recession is over? Just because the banks that received billions of taxpayer money say its over doesn't mean its over. Wake Up!
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7/20/09 - Watching Dennis Kneale's 8 o'clock CNBC Reports is no different than being forced to watch a hour long info-commercial on extending your prostate with the exception that more information is given in the prostate commercial, at least more factural info.
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Dennis is a little funny looking (Hey, who wouldn't wan't a tall, busty, redhead giving them the business news), but he speaks the truth with an energy that is sufficient to pass along to his watchers.
He's the next Kudlow.
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After Kneale's repeated on-air outbursts against bloggers, in which he has called them "dickweeds" (see June 30 video above) and "digital imbeciles," Kneale told our source who spoke privately with him that the crusade was dreamed up with his producer, former Fox News man Jerry Burke. The idea was to draw attention and drum up buzz.
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The commentator is like those starlets in Hollywood who complain about the paparazzi until no one cares enough to follow them. Blogs are only savaging Kneale because he is on national TV and occasionally deserves it. Lashing out at critics will only serve to embolden them.
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Please comment on company unions like SEIU and UFCW. You know my view of them as traitors to unions, capitalism and America, but what are your views?
By the way, it is most unfortunate that you look like Andy Gibbs' double. No offense intended.
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Speaking of low-paid retail workers, how about what is going on at Whole Foods, with picket lines after their CEO's WSJ article, stating that the public option for healthcare be should be reconsidered? Is it not interesting that the healthcare debate has even migrated into retail?
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called out again....
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1406-Kneale-Abuse.html
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That's it. I just subscribed to Fox Business Channel, as a sane alternative to CNBC. You are no Larry Kudlow, and he is alone at CNBC among the business journalists with their heads screwed on properly. Say hello to your double, Robert Gibbs, as you and all the others at CNBC are "team players" for Immelt, one of Obama's inner circle. You may discover soon that you are all losers, especially after next year's election.
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Dennis:
National Health Care is simple. I watch CNBC every day and loved the debate today. The Congressman did not respond to the Ted Kennedy question which I thought was a very fair question. Typical Politician - deflect or avoid the question - you won that debate as she clearly had no rebuttal.
Let me be clear that I don't ride a party as I clearly focus on the issues at hand.
High-Level we have 3300 lobbyist in DC representing varying interests = they get paid to influence a Corporate Strategy or position.
Issue at Hand - National Healthcare - the government should mandate that all insurers have to participate in every state and abolish "participate at profit or risk" - this will drive competition and reduce rates - or eliminate profit seekers out of the market.
Two types of Insurers:
Fixed Premium - profit or loss from your portfolio. If your company large or small has a spike you are shopped and you potentially will not find a new insurer due to an edge case.
Self Insured or Adjudicators - you own the risk and re-insurance kicks in at a ceiling.
Pre-existing or non insured - that is a tough one. Yes we have a large population that either cannot afford the coverage, the insurance companies deny coverage, etc... That is the major issue.
I'm excited to understand how the government will solve the problem.
It's simple - P&C, Car insurance, Health, Life, etc... why do we have different laws stat to state. If you want to participate in a market than you have to be all in.
The Alabama example Blue Cross Blue Shield - I might have my mis-referenced the carrier - why don't we have competition. That is a monopoly i.e. You can only buy gas from one supplier. That is BS!
Health Care is very clear in my mind. Provide options, let the market balance the pricing and delivery.
The best option will prevail in any market and force the inferior service provider/insurer to back out of the market.
The government should focus on legislation that will long-term drive efficiency.
Please excuse my spelling or typos.
The issue is simple!
I'm looking forward your feedback!
timmyg!
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why is everyone singling out and denigrating Dennis Kneale? the other cheerleaders on CNBC (male and female, including Kudrow, Erin, etc etc) are all incompetent media whores who will say anything to keep the dumb and dumber american pubic fixated on dumping their hard earned money into the animal called the stock market, who's mood is discussed daily by said cheerleaders as if its alive and well, when its actually being manipulated by the likes of Goldman Sachs, and other Paulsen/Geitner/Summers/theFed like greedy thugs who continue to destroy the economy of the "once great" USA. Fire all these CNBC media whores; at least Dennis is a brilliant witty journalist with the ability to navigate a sea of high powered executives with ease while keeping them at ease, he is sharp as a steak knife thru room temp butter. I thoroughly enjoy his refreshing style.
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To Dennis Kneale
Regarding the Yahoo Finance article you submitted today ... here is what I submitted in response
Yahoo! Finance
The Real Deal on the Massachusetts Debacle
cnbc/ Kneale
As usual, CNBC which mistakenly presents itself as a news organization rather than a politically skewed commentary supporting purely conservative values. They do so by supporting pseudo-intellectuals such as Dennis Kneale who paints his canvas in black and white rather than the shades of color needed to represent the entire nation ... and not just those who already have money.
These same people such as Kneale, who were against TARP are now applauding the money the government has made without giving Obama the credit. These same people who threaten that a health care bill "will kill the elderly" wonder why Obama is reluctant to include them or their negativity.
Aside from the eternal negativity and fear-mongering, what do the Republicans have to offer? Small government. More trickle down tax reduction for the rich. These people haven't had an original idea since the Civil War.
For their part, the Democrats continue their infighting and grandstanding. They have never had the juevos to confront Republicans period. The Republicans didn't control Congress during the Bush years yet got what they wanted, so why can't the Democrats control it now with bigger numbers? Why? Because the Republicans simply vote "no" no matter what the issue. Their goal is not to find consensus, but to win elections, pure and simple.
The bottom line is this: Obama has been politically neutered by tackling the economic black hole left by Cheney and Bush. He is quickly finding out that the Presidency has little to do with new ideas or with decency for that matter. Intelligence also has little to do with politics. That is why there are so many sheep following and adhering to the politics of networks like CNBC who parade as objective when they are anything but.
Whatever works, but make sure you bring down Obama first. Minorities and their more liberal views have always been threatening to these kinds of people.
(By the way, I am a retired small businessman who in his day employed forty people ... I vote for the greater good and not from my pocketbook.)
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