The catfight between CNBC and Fox Business Network at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is out of control.
The final straw: Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo was caught on tape talking about CNBC's production team nearby, saying, "Look what they're doing … they're embarrassing themselves."
You can see it about three seconds into the video below (via TVNewser).
"Ooooohhh. That's where you're headed," the CNBC employee said, according to TVNewser."They're no competition!"
Sadly, these are not the first punches that have been thrown between the two networks regarding this annual gathering of business, intellectual, and political leaders.
Last week, before anyone had even landed in Davos, Fox Business Network's senior correspondent Charles Gasparino went on the air and said that CNBC managing editor Nick Dunn would be wearing his "ass for a hat" after seeing how superior Fox's coverage of Davos would be to CNBC's.
And all this week Fox Business Network reporters have aired grievances with CNBC's behavior. They accuse CNBC of threatening guests, of telling them that if they don't do CNBC first, they don't do CNBC at all.
This made Gasparino, a former CNBC reporter, very upset. So he took to Twitter:
#Davos2015@cnbc"threat gate" spoke to CNBCs nick Dunn he confirms that he told guests they "have to do us first"@LizClaman@FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) January 22, 2015my philosophy when dealing w @cnbc thuggery in #davos2015"they pull a knife you pull a gun..."@BeastQuake@NickDunnCNBC@BrianWSteel
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) January 23, 20151 of these days @NickDunnCNBC& rest @CNBC will realize they are threatening CEOs to come on their #davos2015 shows so they can say NOTHING
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) January 23, 2015Fox Business' Liz Claman mentioned it on her show as well.
But here's the thing: This complaint from Fox Business Network is hardly new. In fact, it's common knowledge that CNBC is ruthless about getting guests first — not just in Davos but at every event, and at home.
Besides, we haven't heard anything from Bloomberg TV about it.
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