• CNBC is backing Maria Bartiromo because, really, what else do you know about CNBC apart from Maria Bartiromo? [NYT]
  

Since the sordid tale of the relationship between former Citigroup exec Todd S. Thomson and CNBC's Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo (and yes, she's had that nickname trademarked, thanks) broke, we've obligingly pointed you toward some of the coverage of the scandal. But then we realized that it might be doing you, our readers, a service to explain what's really at stake here.

• Maria Bartiromo: too palsy with her subjects. [NYT]
  

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