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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Why do you say that? Political talk shows aside all of the financial guys like Ramsey and Clark Howard seem pretty legit as well as Kim Komando (Tech help) and "America on the Road"(cars/automotive).
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Kim Komando is generally accurate but is not a show for tech people but for very non-tech people. I wouldn't rely on her for advice myself, I go to better, primary sources. I don't listen to car shows except for catching Car Talk every now and then on NPR so no idea about America on the Road.
Any show where the host endorses products makes me less likely to trust their judgment, so that's a big part of it. It blurs the line between advertising and actual recommendations when someone whose job is to give advice "recommends" a product that is paying for their show.
Ramsey does that. I've never heard Howard. But it's a big thing in talk radio that annoys me and weakens the credibility.
Also when someone's selling themselves as a 'brand' that really works they're not exactly unbiased. I don't really know anyone who uses the method and hadn't gotten around to looking into it, so the only data point I have is himself and the people on his show, not an unbiased sample, ya know?
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