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http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220252&title=cnbc-gives-financial-advice

I watch The Daily Show every day. Last night’s episode was the Daily Show at its absolute best. The CNBC montage is at the level of an Errol Morris movie and the segment on the media’s use of the stock market as an all seeing eye was just incredible.

If you haven’t watched it in a while, be sure to check out March fourth’s episode.

Here’s what Matt Yglesias has to say:

The other is that CNBC is a lucrative and somewhat influential television network, but the whole thing is also pretty much a fraud. Fox News is just a little itty-bitty fraud. They say they’re “fair and balanced” but really they’re conservative. I don’t think anyone’s really fooled or anyone is trying especially hard to fool anyone. It is what it is—cable news with a slant. CNBC, though, very earnestly purports to be a good source of information about business and economics and even economic policy. And it just isn’t. The whole thing is a farce. It’s as if we had a 24-hour news network dedicated entirely to the pronouncements of astrologists and entrail readers.