Is CNBC Too 'Anti-Obama'?

Interesting item in the New York Post's Page Six column today:  CNBC SWEATS 'OBAMA-BASHING'

THE top suits and some of the on-air talent at CNBC were recently ordered to a top-secret meeting with General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to discuss whether they've turned into the President Obama-bashing network, Page Six has learned. "It was an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind," a source familiar with the powwow told us. "There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much. There's great concern that CNBC is now the anti-Obama network. The whole meeting was really kind of creepy."

Even so, as I once pointed out, business journalists tend to be more conservative than our brethren on other beats. Anti-union as well, and I speak as one who briefly served on the negotiating committee of the in-house Dow Jones union.

I tend to be fairly middle-of-the-road myself, but in on-air debates on CNBC, particularly on issues like executive compensation, I have come across as a wide-eyed Bolshie compared to some of their guests and on-air "talent."

I remember once having lunch with a publisher, and he leaned over to whisper in my ear, as if it was a major secret, that a fellow author--who worked for the New York Times, no less--was a registered Republican! Since the GOP is a small and increasingly isolated minority party, it kind of makes you wonder if Republican is the New Black.