'FBN' Anchor Glick: Jim Cramer Has My Support

Jon Stewart and Frank Rich may be picking on you, Jim Cramer, but don't let it get you down: Alexis Glick has your back.

At the TV Newser summit in Tribeca this afternoon, I asked the Fox Business Network anchor whether she thinks the recent criticisms of CNBC on The Daily Show and in The New York Times were fair, and whether they might equally well be applied to her own Fox Business Network.

"Frankly, I think we would support that," she said, referring to the increasing stridency of CNBC's punditry and its occasionally spillover into news reporting. "We would back them up. I think it if were Cody Willard or Stuart Varney or Neal Cavuto who got fired up and said something, we'd probably have them on the Jon Stewart show and other places like that, because that's about differences of opinion and differences of opinion are okay."

(I leave it up to you if that remark about "the Jon Stewart show" was meant as a subtle dig at CNBC's Rick Santelli, who canceled an scheduled Daily Show segment, incurring Stewart's wrath.)

She was then asked whether she took it as a bad sign that Fox Business wasn't even mentioned in yesterday's New York Times story about CNBC's excesses. Glick suggested that the Times favors CNBC, with which it has a content-sharing agreement, adding, "but look, no, I'm not worried about that. Things take time. I measure progress by the fact that we're reporting great stories."

More Glick:

-Asked when Fox Business will start releasing Nielsen ratings: "The whole Nielsen situation is fairly complicated for us. This is not an apples-to-apples basis for us," she said, because FBN is still being adding households and in many cases the channel is on the digital cable tier. "When we have the right critical mass, whenever that is -- I'm sure Rupert [Murdoch] and Roger [Ailes] have a specific target and time zone, but that's a higher pay rate than me."

-Should financial journalists be blamed for not adequately recognizing and warning the public about the coming financial crisis? "The bottom line is yes, do we have to bear some of the responsibility perhaps for some of the things we may have missed? Sure. Collectively, we all [missed things]. But cannot blame [just] journalists, you cannot blame lawmakers, you cannot blame regulators....It's our responsibility and a lot of people in journalism did step up to the plate, but it's a collective responsibility."

-On whether news organizations should be using Twitter, YouTube and other newfangled distribution gimmicks: "We've got to open up the doors to multiple opportunites, to multiple platforms. I truly believe that if you do not embrace the internet in whatever shape and form it looks like, you do your company a grave disservice." You heard it here first, folks: Don't ignore the internet.

-"When I have guests on my show, I write handwritten thank you notes to most of those guests. I've been doing that for a very long time." So remember: If Glick ever interviews you and you don't get a note afterwards, it's definitely a snub.