Peter Schacknow, a senior producer at CNBC, writes on The Shack Attack blog that he frequently encounters the same questions from people he meets, so he’s got a prepared list of responses.
Here are a few:
4. When stocks go down, I’ve noticed over the years that people like to chase me down the hall and say “What are you doing to me???” (That’s why I ran the equivalent of 45 marathons following the bursting of the internet bubble.) I use the Bart Simpson defense on this one: “I didn’t do it.” I may write it, but I didn’t cause it. Hey, if you’re not going to give me credit when they go up, why should I take the blame when they fall?
6. TV and radio broadcasters actually DO write some of what you hear them say. (When I was a morning radio anchor, some people were actually shocked to hear that I didn’t just show up two minutes before airtime and read.)
Read the others here.
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