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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (4459)	1/30/2000 1:58:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

Blue, that's why i don't have Cable!! Seen enough of CNBC to know for every good money-making steer i'd get watching their Stock Shopping Shows - several would be money-losing bummers or (worse) get me so mad-aggrivated to need getting away from the stocks for the rest of the day just to calm down. My own zen watching the stocks swim by and show their colors through a small aqauarium viewing window would be confused by watching the bashing and/or (next day) hyping touts on these shows. They DO move the market! Watching the tickers move and reading what happened on the stock's tread to find out why, is enough. What gets me, is when a Big in a Co's stock i hold is scheduled to appear on one of these shows, and mysterious moves start to happen with the stock even before the event is broadcast for whatever reason "The Truth Is Out There". Your recollection reminded me of times Haines Got GNETs And GOTO's Tickers All In A Twist (sorryboutdat Bob) ... by morphing some facts differentiating the two companies for enough longer than one day to make some investors irate and asking questions. Email and phone calls to the station from irate GNET shareowners were ignored. It didn't look good. Maybe it's about high time for... A Hilarious STOCK SHOPPING TABLOID SHOW SPOOF-O-RAMA ... Inspired by SI At It's VERY BEST perhaps!! Maybe then the Financial/Business shows that Really DO move markets can get it straight that humor and glitz doesn't obscure such (at best) unprofessionalism and sloppy reporting as these incidents earlier last year exemplify. Especially when people with hard earned money invested are affected by moves coming from outer space. Until they GET IT RIGHT, i don't have cable tv. (Snow on Wall Street is predicted for Monday's Open too...) Joan