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To: Ted David who wrote (3251)	7/21/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

I seem to have missed something, Ted. Are you saying that you'd rather not read the comments of some of us, or are you saying that you are now the self-appointed monitor of the thread, and that you have an obligation to control our discussion? If you just don't like what we are saying, I can deal with that in one word: tough. OTOH, if you feel that you have an obligation to enforce piety at the throne, I'd like a reference to your appointment as guardian of the thread. I respect your opinions more than most, Ted, but editorial control shouldn't apply here. IMO. jim

To: Ted David who wrote (3251)	7/21/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17683

Ted, Yes, you have stepped out of bounds. You called people on the carpet for making a mockery of JFK Jr.'s death, when your employer has done exactly the same thing--only your employer did it on a national grandstand. I agree, let them be buried in peace. That means no Geraldo nightly chat sessions on the Kennedy's front lawn, and no Tom Brokaw interuptions of CNBC business coverage, on an hourly basis, to give us the gruesome tales of how these poor people are being raised from the dead. I've said this before and I'll say it again: when I have CNBC tuned on, I want to see people like yourself (Ted), Joe Kernan, Mark Haines, and various guests who carry some weight in the financial community. When I have CNBC on, I want to learn about the financial markets. When I want to know the gossip about "whether JFK Jr will be buried at sea," or "crashed because he was making the Mile High Club," I can change the channel to the E! Network. And when I want to hear speculation about Bill C. inquiring about how to buy a Piper for Hillary to fly VFR while the new White House interns are being "initiated," I'll turn to Comedy Central (or maybe C-Span, since that scenario doesn't sound too far out of the realm of possibility). Ted, I realize that you did not have anything to do with the editors' choice of making this story into a mockery and an embarrassment to the Kennedy family. I also realize that you had no input (at least I hope not, Ted!) in the hiring of RingMaster Geraldo. However, based on CNBC's treatment of this story, and with the sensationalism they've dealt to it, I cannot believe you would chastise people who make some (admittedly) off-color jokes. We've all had people close to us die at some point in time. Think back to when it last happened to you. When you were dealing with your grief, would you want some asshole like Geraldo, along with 2000 other journalists, camped out on your front lawn? When you were taking a quiet bike ride to blow off steam, would you want some cretin to shove a video camera in your face and tail you on your entire ride? How would that make you feel, if your mother or father or brother had just died? Put yourself in their shoes Ted, it wouldn't be cool. It's the mere fact that the media is making such a big deal out of this that makes people like me want to make off color jokes about it. And also, when you drive drunk and crash your vehicle off a bridge, killing your mistress and then leaving her for dead while you cover it up, it "kinda sorta" leaves your family open to criticism. And when your family fortune was made by, ahem, the same techniques that today would be called "bucket shop pump and dump" as well as illegal bootlegging, well, it's tough for "lunch-bucket tax payers" like myself to feel sorry for a family like that, who ultimately died due to the riches their grandfather had illegally/immorally accumulated. Let's face it, if Joseph Kennedy had shown up on Wall Street after the S.E.C. was formed to crack down on bucket shops, the Kennedy family would be lunch-bucket tax payers just like you and me...how ironic that would be. And just think--JFK Jr. wouldn't have the cake to buy a $300,000 plane...so he'd still be alive...so if you really want to blame it on someone, blame it on the Old Man, who cursed the whole family with his ill-begotten money. As much as people do not wish to admit it, Joe Kennedy Sr. was nothing more than the Bob Brennan (of First Jersey Securities) of his time. Thanks again for your input, but I think you're out of bounds, still. Gary Gary