The New York Post, Just Asking

Sunday's "Page Six" inThe New York Post had a couple of tantalizing blind items. One is about an ill-behaved rapper, and the other is about an ill-behaved TV executive. Here's the second of those two items:

WHAT top cable news executive is repeatedly cheating on his wife with younger women? He even recently made a play for one of his on-air babes.

Who could it be? The Cable Gamer doesn't know, of course. Full stop. End of discussion.

(But say, that Jonathan Wald of CNBC--he's a handsome devil, isn't he?)

Cramer and Tele-Hubris

The Cable Gamer doesn't pretend to be a lawyer or fiscal savant. However, it does appear to this untrained eye that CNBC's Jim Cramer confessed to a crime last night on a streaming video show that's now, of course, on You Tube.

As reported by The New York Post's Roddy Boyd, Cramer bragged about manipulating prices. "No one else in the world would ever admit that, but I don't care." Well, yes, because perhaps no one else in the world is as egomaniacal and hungry for publicity as Cramer.

But should Cramer worry about a sharp practice that is a violation of the law? He doesn't seem to think that he needs to worry, because, he says, "The Securities and Exchange Commission never understands this."

Sounds like a case of tele-hubris to me.

One reason why CNN had so much trouble--its boss was a moonbat. And here's proof!

Ever heard of "Moonview"? Remember Gerald Levin? Well he's back in the news, with a new New Age gig that sheds some light on how CNN got to be the way it is: wacky, effete, liberal, and out of touch with ordinary American values.

Levin was the CEO of Time-Warner from 1993 to 2001, during the time when Time-Warner took over CNN, in 1996, and also merged with AOL, in early 2001. As the stock chart above shows, the stock soared to over $100 per share in 2000, and then plummeted steeply, as investors realized what a turkey the merged-up Time-Warner was. So Levin "retired" in 2001. Today the T-W stock sits at around 20, which is to say, about a fifth of its peak.

And so it's revealing to see what some of those media geniuses have been doing with themselves since leaving Time-Warner and CNN in the dirt. There's Ted Turner, of course--he's totally crazy.

And now an update on Levin. The New York Post takes note of an article in W magazine about his resort, Moonview (that's the real name, I am not making this up!) in Santa Monica, which is now opening a branch in NYC.

Here's the Post's ace media reporter, Keith Kelly:

"Levin and Laurie [his wife] give a rare inside view of Moonview, where for an annual fee of $175,000, they give celebrities, corporate honchos and other high rollers a huge helping of their new age healing - everything from shamanism, acupuncture, yoga and hypnotherapy sessions to brain painting, which uses the brain's electric signals to create designs on a computer screen. Three medical doctors are on staff and 80 new age practitioners are on call."

Is that what America needs? Probably not. It might be what billionaires need--and they can afford it. But one could not ever expect to see a better symbol of CNN's limousine-liberal view of the world.