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To: PMS Witch who wrote (3561)	8/19/1999 4:27:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 17683

I agree. Some kind of compromise between their need for greed profits, and better viewer satisfaction and education would be a realistic and worthy goal. They are sort of like the "Caffeine Network" now, where everything is RUSH, RUSH, RUSH, HURRY, HURRY, finish your sentence or train of thought quickly, or else the computer will cut us off. It's very irritating. Yesterday, I almost fell off my chair when Ron Insana came on! I said to myself, myself <g>, did he get a haircut or what? Just when I thought that CNBC was getting dull, Maria "Bart" wears hot pink on the same day that Ron Insana sheds his "wig". :^) And now, Maria is wearing black! I guess that is over the funeral of Ron's "hair". <G> Yogi

To: PMS Witch who wrote (3561)	8/20/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

I'm afraid I don't remember the old FNN quite as fondly. There was just as much nonsense on the air then as there is on CNBC these days. I don't have any old tapes to play, so maybe my memory is faulty, but in many ways the coverage on CNBC is much more insightful, and certainly more focused, than the coverage I recall from FNN. To be fair one of the reasons for this is CNBC, as cheap as they are, has money and FNN didn't. Speaking of which, FNN's legacy is somewhat tarnished because their reporters were sitting in the midst of the financial misdealings and ultimate bankruptcy of a publicly traded company and missed the story entirely. I remember someone at the time comparing them to the piano player in a whorehouse. That may have been a little too harsh, but it's still a valid point.