Sunday, August 18, 2002

Many of us are hooked on cable news if we watch TV at all. MSNBC is in trouble and whether we like it or not we really need all three networks. If you suddenly found yourself the producer of a cable network, how would you program the schedule? Remember, you are the total boss. Spare no expense.
'Boring, dull but still good news': Harriet Johnson Brackey of the Miami Herald writes in her Sunday Market-Watch report: 'The recent absence of bad news is the best thing that's happened to the stock market since summer began..... the market went up and stayed solid.'
More market news: The Arizona Republic leads their Sunday editions with the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures findings that 43 percent of Arizona's retailers have been incorrectly scanning prices at the checkout counter. The good news is that these errors have been in favor of the customer about 60 percent of the time. SuperKMart Centers, KMart, Wal-Mart and Macy's stores had the highest failure rates, according to state inspectors.
The heat is on! With Tuesday's deadline nearing for Martha Stewart to turn over documents to congressional investigators, the feds 'ransacked' her stockbroker's office at the end of last week with cartons of evidence. Seems Martha's been playing it cool-as-a-cucumber and according to white-collar crime expert Christopher Bebel: 'she continually amends her story to fit new developments.'
Beauty is....Well, you decide. A group of Scottish scientists have concluded that 'beauty may be in the eye of the beer holder rather than the beholder' as written up in this piece in Ananova. The study was based on the findings of 80 college students in Glasgow. In another beer-related-tale, the trial of the castration of the town's beer-swilling goat mayor in the border town of Lajitas, Texas is nearing and this story is taking on a life of its own.
Stay clicked...There's plenty of hard-news and commentary posted on the board to quench any-sized-thirst this Sunday morning. We'll be updating 'Must Reads' with the latest throughout the day and evening. If you've had it with the Sunday Morning jabba-thon on the networks, you might want to click on thru to the Weekend Roundtable and drop-anchor.
-Your well-anchored-and-good-news-to-start-your-day LComEditor, Amy Sheehan