MarketWatch

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:55pm on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

December 9, 2009: Jon Friedman of MarketWatch thinks Sarah Palin should sit in Oprah Winfrey's TV chair:

"There hasn't been a more daunting challenge on TV since Jay Leno succeeded Johnny Carson or Dan Rather took the place of Walter Cronkite.

When you pause to think about it, Oprah is a combination of Carson and Cronkite. She is entertaining and reliable, just like Carson, and TV's Most Trusted individual, as was Cronkite.

Plenty of established TV stars are probably under consideration as well, such as Tyra Banks, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachael Ray and Kelly Ripa.

Still, I nominate Sarah Palin to follow Oprah."

The full story:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sarah-palin-should-succeed-oprah-on-tv-2009-12-09

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:09pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

The MarketWatch web site has a new look, editor David Callaway breathlessly confided on May 11, 2009:

"Now, as everybody from active investors to retirees dependent on fixed incomes looks to the markets for signs of a fragile recovery, MarketWatch is offering a suite of new Web services and designs to help readers gauge the progress. A new-look front page, the jewel of the MarketWatch crown, is unveiled today with more breaking news, better charts and easier-to-find personalities with the freshest financial commentary.

We're proud of the lengths our 100 journalists around the world go to every day to get you the latest news on your markets. And we're excited that today we can present it to you in an even more modern, competitive way.

Our goal is to highlight the breadth and depth of our news and to bring industry-leading columnists like Mark Hulbert and Therese Poletti to the forefront, as well as to offer new ways to access and manipulate our vast pools of markets data. To achieve this, we've redesigned every page on the MarketWatch site."

The full article:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/welcome-to-the-new-look-of-marketwatchcom

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:32pm on Monday, April 13th, 2009

Jon Friedman wrote an interesting story posing the question: Do scoops matter in a digital world? on April 10, 2009:

"Like every serious journalist, I live to beat my rivals to the news. It's a blast whenever I can watch my competitors scrambling to play catch-up as they glumly report their second-rate, follow-up stories.

But ego gratification aside, I have to wonder: How much do scoops still matter in the thick of the digital revolution?

Not so much, I'm afraid. With the exception of a Watergate-like bombshell, news exclusives don't mean as much as they used to, I'd argue, with hand over heart.

How long does a scoop last nowadays on the Internet? Ten seconds, maybe?

Things have changed."

Dean Donne    St. Louis MO

Posted at 11:36pm on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Marketwatch is generally a pretty good source of economic and financial news along with stock market coverage. The fun, and funny, aspect of MarketWatch is the user comments, which obviously come from a gang of rabid and financially and sexually frustrated short sellers and survivalists. A common sentiment: "Capitalism has been dealt a death blow." What ever shall we do!!??