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Erin Burnett is leaving CNBC to join CNN, where she will anchor a weekday general news program...

  • Friday, April 29, 2011, 4:56 PM ET
    Erin Burnett is leaving CNBC to join CNN, where she will anchor a weekday general news program beginning this summer. Erin is ready for the change - but is America?
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    Her left leanings will be more than welcome at CNN.
    Good riddance. It will be nice not to have to listen to her anymore.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:01 PM Reply Like
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    when is CNBC leaving CNBC?
    29 Apr 2011, 05:06 PM Reply Like
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    I'll miss B-cup Burnette.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:07 PM Reply Like
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    If only Mark Haines would take off but someone would have to hire him which is a stretch.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:08 PM Reply Like
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    totally right on. Mark Haines is absolutely unwatchable. Horrible.
    at least Erin is cute
    29 Apr 2011, 05:24 PM Reply Like
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    My exact sentiments. But if my memory is correct, Haines was looking to retire till Erin showed up. Perhaps, this will work out great.
    29 Apr 2011, 06:26 PM Reply Like
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    Is it bad form to say "yeessss!!!" lol Now if they could get rid of Mark Haines and Bob Pisani, they'd be making some headway.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:08 PM Reply Like
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    Pity, I would have much rather had Kudlow go. At least EB was easy on the eyes.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:11 PM Reply Like
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    until you get to the google pic of her w/o makeup. Eeeek!
    29 Apr 2011, 05:19 PM Reply Like
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    take that as*h*le cramer with you
    29 Apr 2011, 05:14 PM Reply Like
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    Erin and CNN are both rising stars. Many of the old folks that watch Fox are dying and viewership will be down two years from now.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:18 PM Reply Like
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    Doing Kool Aid today again.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:32 PM Reply Like
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    Terry,

    Probably more than just Kool-Aid.

    www.newsmax.com/Inside...


    www.huffingtonpost.com...
    29 Apr 2011, 05:40 PM Reply Like
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    CNN is more like a black hole. Cable ratings have been in the tank for years. They're even losing market share to the Nickelodeon network. But then with CNN's audience what do you expect?
    However, considering the bleak offering of anchors CNN has, Erin might actually help them.
    29 Apr 2011, 06:32 PM Reply Like
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    OK. The facts are CNN news is dying on the vine. They had to lure her over to compete for ratings. Fox News has 10 times the viewers as all the other networks. Fox has had the #1 audience for years. I'm not sure what you thinking.
    1 May 2011, 12:32 PM Reply Like
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    She's empty headed eye candy. Maybe I'll start watching CNBC with sound on.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:39 PM Reply Like
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    al9000,

    Who, Terry330 or Erin Burrnett?
    29 Apr 2011, 05:43 PM Reply Like
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    Ar last. Kkudlow, The tea party ( CharlieGadporino?) bond guy and balance of the irreponsible rich pimpers are so ideologically disgusting, I can't stand to watch this greed gathering.
    Erin's questions and observations were a breath of truth and hionest discourse drowned out in the bad breath of tea party crap. I came ro admire and respect her for her wisdom vs. bigot birther, gasbags who surrounded her.. Now, to rhe extentI I ever warch CNBC again, I will definitely keep the sound off; looking only art the crawl as thw rifhgt wing radicals conrinue to pumo speculation over investing and praising Pimco traitors while trying to justify with trickle down down "voodoo economics, their sick philosophy of " we are not our brothers keeper"
    29 Apr 2011, 05:59 PM Reply Like
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    Your thoughts are as clear as your spelling. I quit watching CNBC when I discovered Seeking Alpha. More news here and more interesting opinions.
    29 Apr 2011, 08:16 PM Reply Like
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    hey bro, right on, and you can share some of my IRA losses and declining house value and help pay my taxes...shared sacrifice...
    30 Apr 2011, 10:42 AM Reply Like
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    Oh! The motor mouth will be giving CNN some firepower that should equalize CNN's softy Don Lemon.
    29 Apr 2011, 05:59 PM Reply Like
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    Erin Burnett is the only reason to watch "Squawk on the Street" right now. She props up the pitiful Mark Haines. Without her on the show, I for one will cease to be a viewer. CNBC might as well put put the blonde bombshell Amanda Drury in Burnett's slot . The hot number from Down Under is quite a distraction. Amanda is easy to look at, but her strong Aussie accent is an assault on my American ears. That hideous accent, with it's strong nasal quality, is disturbing. I find her hard to understand most of the time. An American with a heavy regional accent would not be acceptable as an on-air personality, so why is an Aussie accent ok. I can't understand why CNBC needs foreign sounding anchors on the anchor desk. With Burnett gone and Drury in her slot I will get my financial news from the competition.

    Good bye CNBC, hello Fox and Bloomberg...

    Sincerely

    BUZ
    29 Apr 2011, 09:44 PM Reply Like
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    Does anyone really watch CNBS (that is not a typo) anymore? The channel should be called "PSGS" (Positive Spin Government Statistics).
    29 Apr 2011, 09:56 PM Reply Like
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    Fifty percent of the time, the hosts and guests on CNBC express their opinion on where the market will go, like anybody really knows where the market is going. The other fifty percent is high-speed stock recommendations without any supporting analysis, Kramer style. I personally prefer Bloomberg where the guests are at least allowed to finish their sentences before they get interrupted for a quick break.
    29 Apr 2011, 11:01 PM Reply Like
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    Erin who? CNN? What the hell is that, a new weather channel?
    30 Apr 2011, 07:13 AM Reply Like
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    CNBC and CNN. Is there any real difference between the two?

    Is that really "change we can believe in?"
    2 May 2011, 03:06 PM Reply Like
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    So why is she still on?
    2 May 2011, 03:19 PM Reply Like
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    Erin Burnett was so annoying to listen to. Good riddance. The female anchors at Bloomberg TV blew away Erin Burnett. Deirdre Bolton, Betty Lu and Carole Masser are all 100x smarter, more interesting, and less milquetoast than Erin Burnett.
    8 May 2011, 05:12 PM Reply Like
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