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To: Ted David who wrote (5488)	5/10/2000 5:53:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 17683

I think the issue is with analysts, not CEOs. If the analysts fashion themselves as predictors of a stock's or a market's performance, shouldn't they be made to account for their forecasts?

To: Ted David who wrote (5488)	5/10/2000 6:12:00 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

<It's hard to win this one. When I go after people on the air and make them answer me... CEO's et al, I often get nasty-grams from people telling me I am rude. Conversely if we just let people have their say unchallenged we are called to task for that. No winners in this one. td> 1.) Why the need to "go after" anyone. Asking a legitimate non leading question is fair game. All you are trying way too hard to be cute with your phrases. Ask the questions properly and professionally. 2.)"Conversely if we just let people have their say unchallenged we are called to task for that. " When you let fools spout known incorrect disinformation it must be corrected, promptly. Otherwise you, yourself become a party to the lie and deception. 3.)"No winners in this one." Certainly not the investing public and those viewers who look to you as a respected source of information. But then again they will soon learn to be aware the ruse in the future. 4.) You and the staff at CNBS better learn to REPORT the news rather than try to MAKE the news or someone somewhere will devise a channel that can. 5.) Overall, I personally rate your channel nothing more than a clown show at the present. Only it's not funny. (It long ago stopped being an informative business channel)

To: Ted David who wrote (5488)	5/10/2000 7:52:00 PM
From: Ginko	Respond to of 17683

It's hard to win this one. When I go after people on the air and make them answer me... CEO's et al, I often get nasty-grams from people telling me I am rude. Conversely if we just let people have their say unchallenged we are called to task for that. No winners in this one. Solution - take an adaptation from Chris Matthews and call it "Lunch Brawl" - sure to spoil ones appetite yet entertaining to see some of these "clowns" facing the music. And make sure you role the archived tape - that way the clowns are boxed and the evidence is even more powerful.

To: Ted David who wrote (5488)	5/11/2000 7:34:00 AM
From: opalapril	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

"When I go after people on the air and make them answer me... CEO's et al, I often get nasty-grams from people telling me I am rude. Conversely if we just let people have their say unchallenged we are called to task for that. No winners in this one." The central implication of this statement is that the prime concern of the interviewer should be his or her own popularity. This, of course, is precisely what leads to the 'Larry King' style of milquetoast, vapid interview. It may make for good show biz (and sell more deodorant or whatever) but it's lousy journalism. Edward R. Murrow -- who, by the way, is not the only model for an attractive-but-tough-and-honest questioner -- must be rolling in his grave. Who was the Newsday columnist who once said, "If more than one person shows up at the funeral of an investigative reporter then he didn't do his job?"