ksmith | *grumble*

The root story about the apparent jockeying for position between 2 CNBC financial reporters is balanced enough at first glance--although I wonder if age differences would be noted so obviously if men were involved. But the Huffington Post headline stating that "CNBC Insists There's No Catfighting Between Its Anchors" just irritates the hell out of me, and not just because it's a standard HuffPo crank-the emotion-up-just-a-little-more headline. Yes, it's the term "catfighting," that handy denigrating catch-all that I've seen used to refer to disagreements between females of all ages and professions, no matter the roots of the disagreement. Because it's all about the hissing and scratching, which makes a lot of entertaining noise, but really doesn't mean anything. No genuine positions of strength. No heartfelt principles being argued. No ambition or ego. It's just girlfighting, and isn't it all one step above jello wrestling anyway?

Yes, I did expect more from a blog/website run by a woman. Guess I expected too much from Ms Huffington.

Update: And now the headline, which is buried on the Media page, reads: "CNBC Insists Burnett, Bartiromo Get Along." I have a feeling it was edited for space, not because of any sudden dawning that maybe they'd made a really lousy choice of words.