Hype Is Hip On CNBC

摘要

In his new book, 'The Fortune Tellers,' press critic Howard Kurtz says the bull market has created a Wall Street media machine that thrives on rumor and misinformation and is secretly influenced by traders, CEOs and biased analysts. Few investors break the code. It is Monday at 8:46 a.m., and Maria Bartiromo is furiously typing, the phone cradled to her ear, in her tiny booth overlooking "The Garage," as one of the four trading rooms of the New York Stock Exchange is called. "Time to sit down," says her assistant, Nicole Petallides.