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Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: CNBC's Bill Griffeth Gets A Facelift

Article Submitted by: JRodgers
The Economy


CNBC sent Bill Griffeth for a facelift over the weekend, then put him on Power Lunch with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Melissa Francis and Dennis Kneale. Why?

 

Submitted: Nov 24, 2008    Views: 1773    Comments: 6    Likes: 3   


These are horrible economic times.  They are unprecedented.  Financial television should provide some sort of assurances of stability or continuity.  There needs to be some gray hair saying that things are going to be alright in order to calm people down.  Yet, CNBC and its parent company GE are the worst violators of ageism in the history of corporate America.  They will opt for Maria Bartiromo's chest long before they will value Sue Herera's intelligence.  They have moved out the older faces before on CNBC, and they told Bill to get a facelift or he was going to disappear in the same way so he went for one. 

I think that it is unfortunate that GE would force Bill to go get a facelift to keep a job.  He will be the ridicule of his family this Thanksgiving.

This time, more than any, calls for letting the older crowd keep their jobs and even should their age.


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Comments Received:

DanS

I agree completely. Across the media, old is bad and young (and now young and minority) is good. Especially for CNBC and similar venues, older age give confidence. They should get with it.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008

Alex
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Mark Haines isn't young but he's the best thing on CNBC. He's the only one who seems to know what is going on.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008

Upj
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Mark Haines is a friend of mine and would be the first to agree with this article. Heck, he probably wrote it.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008

George
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Unprecedented my a$$. All of our financial and social ills have happened before, many, many times in many nations. When you consume more than you produce, allow leaders to "manage" your currency, send your armies across the seas and imprison far more people than the rest of the civilized world under the laws of a mobocracy, you end up with less of everything you were trying to gain. Nothing new about our mistakes, nothing new about the results.

Posted: Nov 26, 2008

...
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ummm yeaa, bill griffeth did not get a facelift. check your sources.

Posted: Oct 7, 2009

Lou
(Unregistered)

To me, Mark sounds like a pitch man at a circus sideshow.I believe David Faber and Charlie Gasparino offer a lot with their insights. The girls are pretty and Michelle's two assets are obvious. I will miss Bill.

Posted: Nov 19, 2009



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