'Demand destruction' driving oil down, Dow's Liveris tells CNBC (Detroit News) - Dow Chemical Co. CEO Andrew Liveris told CNBC that "demand destruction" caused by rising energy prices is helping drive oil futures lower, Bloomberg News reported this morning.

Fox News chairman gets $4.5m bonus (Financial Times) - Roger Ailes received shares worth almost $4.5m for last October’s launch of the Fox Business Network, News Corp ’s much-hyped bid to take on CNBC, according to a proxy filing by the media group.

CNBC's Guy Adami Joins optionMONSTER(R), Launches Drakon Capital (Centre Daily Times) - optionMONSTER(R), a leading news and market-intelligence service for options traders, announced that CNBC "Fast Money" cast member Guy Adami has joined the company and is heading up a new research business aimed at institutional investors in equities and equity derivatives.

On cable, Olympic oddities make a splash (USA Today) - There's still plenty of fun in the Games on cable. The Beijing Olympics are down to their last four days, but they have enough TV events left to last the summer. Today alone, midnight to midnight, NBC will offer 73 hours of coverage spread over NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD, with an extra 24 thrown in if you get the Basketball Channel and Soccer Channel.

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Pew Survey: Viewers of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Score High on News Knowledge (Editor & Publisher) - NEW YORK The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the “fake news” programs "The Daily Show"and "The Colbert Report" are more knowledgeable about current events (as judged by three test questions) than watchers of “real” cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly and Larry King, among others -- as ...

Mix Of Online, TV Proving To Be Gold For NBC's Olympics (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - U.S. fans are watching online Olympic videos in record numbers, even as the network is well on its way to posting a new record for people watching the games on TV.

One-Two Punch Hits Markets (Forbes) - Soaring crude and flailing financials hit the Street, as banks and brokerages take turns downgrading each other.

Financials Slammed Again As Pros See Crisis Growing (CNBC via Yahoo! Finance) - The financial industry was hit with more downgrades and dire predictions, continuing a drumbeat of bad news for the already battered sector.