访谈录 2009-05-07&05-09 金融危机中新闻媒体的角色

Interesting edit point. Hmm, we'll be right back with the rest of the interview with Jim Cramer. Welcome back, and now the thrilling conclusion of the Jim Cramer Interview. Take a look.

 

What is the responsibility of the people who cover Wall Street? Who are you responsible to? The people in the 401K’s and the pensions, and the general public, or the Wall Street traders? And by the way, this casts aspersion¹ on all of Wall Street when that's unfair as well. The majority of those guys are working their asses² off. They're really bright guys. I know a lot of them. They're just trying to do the right thing. And they're getting f… in this too.

 

True, true. I think that as a network, we produce a lot of interviews where I think that we've been, there've been people who've not told the truth. Should we have been constantly pointing out the mistakes that were made? Absolutely. I surely wish we had done more. I think that we've been very tough on the previous Treasury³ Secretary, very tough on the previous administration, how they didn't get it, very tough on Ben Bernanke. But at the same time, I…

 

He is the guy, Paulson’s the guy who wrote the rule that allowed people to over-leverage.

 

I trash him every night. I've called him a liar⁴ on TV. What am I gonna do? Should we all call them liars⁵? I'm a commentator⁶. We have, and you could take issue with the fact that I throw bulls and bears. I can still be considered serious. I’m not Eric Sevareid, and I'm not Edward R. Murrow. I'm a guy trying to do an entertainment show about business for people to watch. But it's difficult to have a reporter say, “I just came from an interview with Hank Paulson and he lied his darn fool head off.” It's difficult. I think it challenges the boundaries.

 

Yeah, I mean, I'm under the assumption, and maybe this is purely⁷ ridiculous. But I'm under the assumption that you don't just take their word at face value, that you actually then go around and try and figure it out. So, again, I, you now have become the face of this. And that is incredibly unfortunate.

 

I wish I had done a better job trying to figure out the 30-to-1 and whether it was gonna blow up. It did. Once it did, I was late saying that it was bad.

 

So maybe we could remove the financial expert and the “In Cramer we trust” and start getting back to fundamentals on the reporting as well. And I can go back to making fart noises and funny faces.

 

I think we make that deal right here.

 

Mad Money airs on CNBC weeknights at six, Jim Cramer.

1 aspersion   

n.诽谤，中伤

参考例句：

• Carrie felt this to contain,in some way,an aspersion upon her ability.嘉莉觉得这话多少含有贬低她的才能的意思。
• Should you hear my name blackened and maligned,will you credit the aspersion?要是你听见我的名誉受到诽谤，你会相信那谗言吗？

2 asses   

n. 驴，愚蠢的人，臀部 adv. (常用作后置)用于贬损或骂人

参考例句：

• Sometimes I got to kick asses to make this place run right. 有时我为了把这个地方搞得像个样子，也不得不踢踢别人的屁股。 来自教父部分
• Those were wild asses maybe, or zebras flying around in herds. 那些也许是野驴或斑马在成群地奔跑。

3 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

4 liar   

n.说谎的人

参考例句：

• I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了，一个又偷又骗的家伙！
• She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。

5 liars   

说谎者( liar的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The greatest liars talk most of themselves. 最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
• Honest boys despise lies and liars. 诚实的孩子鄙视谎言和说谎者。

6 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

7 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。