Dear CNBC,
You hosted the recent Republican GOP debate. You are broadcasting statements by candidates who want to run this country on your channel. But you are refusing to allow the American public to watch this debate. Shame on you!
Dear CNBC,
You hosted the recent Republican GOP debate. You are broadcasting statements by candidates who want to run this country on your channel. But you are refusing to allow the American public to watch this debate. Shame on you!
You are part of a big problem. You are preventing people from making educated decisions. More specifically, you are preventing people who cannot afford (or choose not to pay you) to watch an important decision making event.
At the same time, you are charging one quarter of a million dollars for an advertising spot on the debate broadcast. Let me get this straight: CNBC is not about news nor is it about CNBC informing the public. CNBC is about making money.
In other words, if you want to hear what the candidates for president of the United States have to say, you have to pay.
Quite frankly, if you are hosting a debate with candidates for president, you should be making the debate available — live — to all citizens of this country. You really do owe it to them.
Congress should create a law and call it the “Shame on CNBC Act” for preventing people from hearing what presidential candidate have to say. The law will state simply, if a broadcast station will be broadcasting a presidential debate, that station will have to make the broadcast available live to all cable, internet and satellite subscribers.
To become president, you have to have a huge chest of money. Watching the politicians debate should not have to cost anyone money.
What you are doing is shameful. You have committed a disservice to this country.
Truly,
Bob who will never ever subscribe to you and your content again.