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Gabriel Winant concludes after watching it for the first time. "The network depends on a particular industry, and thrives on good economic news, which is in short supply," he notes. "Nobody wants to tune in to cable day after day to hear yet another dirge for yet another one of their stocks. There is a financial imperative for the pundits to keep their core audience of investors coming back, and therefore an obligation for the pundits to distort empirical reality to make a grim future seem manageable."
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CNBC's Cramer fires back at Comedy Central's Stewart
