From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 19:44:36 MDT
The stock market took a huge hit today. The news
in pretty much any web-based report is accompanied
by the requisite photo of some broker looking ashen
faced, as if to say, oy vey. Conversely, when the
market does well, they have photos of stock traders
looking like a flock of Swedish sparrows.
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.
Is this a great business plan or what?
It does leave one question, however. Why is it always
guys down on the trading floor at the stock exchange?
I dont recall ever seeing oy-veying women in those
photos.
spike
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