MONEY CULTURE
Daniel Gross
The Most Ridiculous Analogy
The results of Money Culture's Fox Business Channel contest
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Earlier this week, in a piece wondering whether the launch of Fox Business Channel was an indicator of a market top, I questioned one of the professed rationales for the Fox biz venture—that CNBC, which dominates the field, isn't sufficiently pro-business or bullish on the markets. I invited readers to provide their own metaphors and analogies to describe the purported need for a new entrant in a market to provide balance to the dominant force—by going even further over the edge.
Many thanks to all those who responded. The top 11 are below. (Because several hit similar themes or overlapped, I have melded some of the comments into single items.)
Saying that the viewers need another business news channel because of CNBC's alleged anti-business, anti-American bias is a little like saying:
11. Ronald Reagan's face should be put on the dime because we don't have enough nostalgia for the Gipper.
10. We need to invade Iran because occupying two countries in the Middle East with insufficient manpower isn't enough to defeat the terrorists.
9. The Los Angeles Lakers need another shooting forward to counterbalance Kobe Bryant's unselfish play.
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