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To: Martin Wormser who wrote (857)	3/31/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: Paul Weiss	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

Martin-- I turn my TV back on and... photographs of Joe Kernen's Hawaiian golf excursion. I gather that he got married, too. A slow news day or has this become typical? All that's lacking is wallet size picks of the director's kids. The arrows: Ain't gonna happen. Somebody made a decision about those stupid monotone puppies and their job depends on keepin' 'em. The arrows will be defended to the death in daily meetings. Can you imagine having your career dependant on some up and down arrows? What's sad is that CNBC is still almost the only game in town. Paul

To: Martin Wormser who wrote (857)	4/2/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Guy E. Fleming	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Martin: Your solution to the arrow problem is much too ingenious in its simplicity for acceptance by the "artsy-fartsy" graphics designers. Now that they've morphed the turkey into almost Harvey-like invisibility, it'll take them a while (to avoid losing face) to acknowledge the stupidity of the same-colored, impossible-to- differentiate arrows. Isn't it amazing? Doesn't anyone in charge at CNBC actually LOOK at the screen once in a while and say, "Why the %%$#@^&&*%%# are we doing it like that?" You can bet if Jack Welch or Bob Wright, GE and NBC honchos respectively, said something like, "that's stupid!", the arrows would be pink and blue (or whatever) lickity-split -- in a New York minute! But, in the end, we'll win that one too!