Joe Rogan questions CNN chief medical correspondent

Perhaps the larger problem exposed in this Sanjay Gupta/Jim Costa/CNN vs Joe Rogan dustup is that CNN has two glaring problems:

1) The first is Sanjay Gupta. He's a neurosurgeon. One would not seek his qualified advice if the problem was diabetes, pregnancy, a broken hip, or a host of other afflictions. Why? Because he is a specialist who must dedicate his free time, when he's not doing surgery or consulting on neurosurgery, or publishing books, or teaching at Emory, or appearing on TV promoting himself to keeping abreast of neurosurgery news. He even found time to portray himself in the movie Contagion. With a wife and 3 kids, that leaves little time to keep current with the myriad aspects of treating COVID. Which point was illustrated when he allowed that maybe a quarter of a million people had been treated with Ivermectin. There are over 200M people in one state of India where Ivermectin was handed out as a prophylactic. "A good man (even a doctor) knows his limitations."

2) When a party has nothing positive to say on a subject, but stridently denigrates it, people may tend to wonder why there is so much hostility. Curious people tend to look for answers. There is a maxim in the sales business that cautions sales persons never to knock the competition as "a knock is a boost." We who work in investments know when reading a completely negative piece about some company/stock, with nothing positive said, recognize bias and motive and absence of objectivity. But CNN goes even farther with it's derisive name calling, eg, "horse worm medicine."

A long time ago, CNN was a good news source. Lately, the company has run off into the ditch. I can remember Wolf Blitzer during the GHW Bush era in Iraq. Now look what he has become. Sad.