From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 21:40:04 MDT
In a message dated 9/3/02 18:50:06, spike66@attbi.com writes:
>It occurred to me today that they could get a bunch
>of guys together, pose them with various expressions,
>1% loss, break even, 1% gain, and so forth, then
>archive thousands of these. Then a web-bot could
>automatically read off the closing result, select the
>appropriate photo, generate a generic accompanying
>news story with the usual meaningless commentary
>about profit taking, earnings expectations and
>yakkity yak and bla bla, all automatically. This would
>cost nothing, since it would not require a human
>newsperson, yet could still sell ad space.
Don't they already do it that way? The daily stock market
report is so routine that if they actually have people do
it it's featherbedding.
(only half-joking..)
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