Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Guidance and Visibility -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (46182)	3/17/2002 10:19:19 AM
From: RKHIII	Respond to of 208838

The kind of program we here on the boards want and need simply can't be done on a daily basis. The probing, analysis and evaluation that type of journalism requires takes time. I consider CNBC to be the usual, formula-style journalism one sees on his or her local broadcast. It's meant to give as much information on as many topics as it can in a 1-to-3 minute segments; not easy to be very insightful within those parameters. Few of the interviewers (I won't call them journalists) possess enough skill to perform the grilling we delight in seeing on 60 Minutes. Again, I blame that, partially, on the time frame. Mike Wallace doesn't just spend 15 minutes with his subjects. Often, it's more like hours (sometimes days) edited into the package we all see. But I've got to blame some of this on ourselves--the viewers. What is it we want to see? Would we spend the time (CAN we spend the time) to watch a much longer interview, or do we want to get onto another stock, another story, immediately? Have we all written to those CNBC producers, and, more importantly, the sponsors to vent our complaints? Probably not. So sometimes, as with presidential elections, we get the television content we deserve. It will only get better if we try to make it so. RK (former TV guy, down off his soapbox)