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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (7359)	4/5/2000 12:04:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) of 7442

Hi levy & Blue, build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. (written tongue-in-cheek, hope it cheers up some folks who've been hurt in the wallet by blitherings on StockShoppingShowBoilerRooms coming from a position of no conscience or accountability apparently) ..... Methinks Bloomberg has it visually and information-wise with their stat-updating split-screen design resembling The Internet, but their newscasters are stodgy compared to CNBC. Bloomberg's slogan is "news that moves markets" - they've got a point there. A combo of Bloomberg's 5-way split-screen of stat/news updates & a ticker with more of my stocks on it than CNBC runs - combined with the histrionics of the StockStarToonPlayers would be something not so easy to unhook from, alritey. Sign me up for that on Broadcast TV ... and "StockToons" on Saturday Morning with tickers for Disney and McDonalds and Nike and Gap and Nabisco and Quaker and Mattel and America Online and Kraft running right below the ads for those products the kiddies love - might be next. Maybe some bubble-gum rock 'n roll show wotj a crowd of kids dancing could be on next around noon "LIVE@WALLSTREET" maybe Dick Clark could host it. The kids could rate stocks on the floor of the Exchange - "I'll give it a 7, it's got a good beat, you can dance to it". The Handsome Actors and Beautiful Actresses pitch such a slick presentation for stock picks and when to buy and sell while repeating the phrases interest rate fears and tech crash in between the commercials with the flow programmed so smooth it's too easy to get lulled by the repetition to an afternoon nap on the comfy couch instead of calling the broker anEEway. Wonder if they know they have this problem? When the stakes are high ... (e.g. times like this when the excitement of "Closing In On The Big One" is so palpable that any room where a TV is playing smells like machines grinding metal) ... the Ham Actors seem to get dragged into stagehogging & popularity contests bulls/bears wars and it'd be almost believable if it didn't come to the same conclusion. Salesmen in a Boiler Room can do a 1-on-1 sight-unseen (Trainee Lesson #1 is "Stick To The Script" & if they can't they're Out)... that's fine on the phone but on StockShoppingTV eyes can't be scanning horizontal so the audience sees they're reading cuecards! The TVStockStars must be able to ad-lib more than the phoneroom salespeople can do, and that takes Real Experience and Education and Stage and Sales Talent!! Giving credit where credit is due -it takes Real Discipline not to wince and clap a hand to the side of the head when that tiny ear receiver gives a deafening electronic shriek like those things will do ... This is really all I know - I don't have cable. 909S, JOANA

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