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To: daffydog who wrote (9490)	7/10/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: V.	Respond to of 28311

OT Ramblings to Mark Goldshein RE: CNBC Hi Mark! Actually, I don't watch TV except rarely. Like maybe once every couple of months. And then it's to view a quality program (such as "Cow & Chicken" ;). I don't even get the networks and though CNBC is available on satellite, I haven't watched it more than 2 or 3 times now in the last couple of years. I have to confess that when I first started watching the market more than with a passing interest several years ago, I learned a lot from watching CNBC. In fact, I would watch "Market Wrap" religiously every evening and "Power Lunch" etc. with compulsivity. It did help me to learn the market 'lingo' (I began to utter words like "the general trend", "the market sentiment", "the whisper number on The Street" and so on which sounded very impressive!) and I became more comfortable with the entire market in general. It no longer scared me as much. Some of that stuff actually did (through osmosis I guess) pass into my brain <g>. So for that, I owe CNBC a note of thanks... However, I became tired of watching the tickers move on by as it caused great eye strain to obtain quotes as they quickly flew across the bottom of my TV screen. I eventually realized that I could get my quotes elsewhere and with greater ease <g>, my news more quickly online, and formulate my own opinions of market trends without watching every tick in the bond market and clinging to the CNBC gurus' every word (or "grews" as cOUSIN SHORTY would say!). I frankly became tired of hearing about "the weakness in the tech sector being due to economic strength in the joblessness reports" one moment, and then hearing entirely the opposite when a 'puter company would report stellar earnings later that same day: "The strength in the tech sector continues and given Dell's earnings, it looks as though it will continue for some time [at least until my next 2 minute spot hehehe]." I lost much of my respect for the 'analysts' during this time who seemed unable to formulate unique opinions which they could stand by for more than a few hours let alone a day or so. Then there was Maria. <gg> I got tired of all the men drooling over her [hiss hissss!] and sorta wished that she and Joe would just finally run off together - beautiful people that they both are. ;) Hi Joe! Hi Maria! I began to prefer interactive discussions with friends on SI, in fact, friends whose knowledge and financial savvy well exceeded anything that CNBC had to offer. I met many people whose knowledge far exceeded anything that CNBC could ever offer. I enjoyed exchanging ideas with these real people who have actual first-hand knowledge to offer as well as flaming a CEO or two. <gg> And so, I stopped wasting my time on CNBC and began to apply my focus elsewhere. I started a chapter of "CNBC Anonymous" and devised a 12 step program to help myself and others break the habit. ;) Now, if I want to listen to a particular interview such as the time when Russ handled himself so smoothly with that Mark Haines, I'll fall off the bandwagon momentarily. <g> (Why CNBC would allow some of these people to get out there and embarrass themselves so is beyond me but it might be one of their only ways of generating some buzz for the show! Haines just rubbed me the wrong way when he interviewed Russ and is not so much of a 'has been' but more of a 'definitely won't be'. ;) Ahhh...Russ has so much class... So, to sum it all up, I'd have to quote a very astute comment which I once heard not long ago: 'The simple solution is the TV's "off" button.' LOL!!