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Financial Entertainment TV Buries Itself with Disinformation

A vendor has a right to sell his product, especially if the product produces the expected result for the price. Media makes its money by selling advertising, which means they need to attract eyeballs. Humans are attracted by emotion thus the newspaper saying, "If it bleeds it leads." Therefore, whether it be financial news, general news, or any TV program, it must first entertain or at least captivate the individual so they can sell commercials.

Mr. Cara perhaps makes the point-silently-that in this business success is determined by emotionless analysis and execution (although evaluating emotion may be an analytical variable). Since financial TV must, by it's nature, appeal to emotions, it potentially dilutes analytical effectiveness-costing the viewer money and time.