Sarah Hampson From Monday’s Globe and Mail
Ali Velshi thinks of himself as a fireman. And the house that’s burning? The world economy.
The chief business correspondent on CNN has watched his star rise as the economy has plummeted. But he recognizes that his celebrity comes with responsibility.
“The perfect example was the week [in October] when the bailout vote failed,” the Toronto-raised journalist says on the phone from the CNN newsroom in Atlanta. “The Dow was off more than 700 points. It was very difficult for us to compute this, to sit there and think, ‘We have never seen this kind of remarkable reaction.’ It’s the kind of thing that would suggest the machines were broken or that the computers were broken. It seemed so unusual, and in order to do that live on TV, broadcasting it, keeping your own adrenalin under control, you’re definitely communicating that this is very, very important, but you cannot panic.”
Which is where his firefighter analogy comes in.
Read at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/
hey i guess it wud be worth tht if u hire someone from Pakistan
cuz the anchors here got nerves of steel :P they are trained in such environment . in PK marke avg volatility stands arond 20% yearly :P
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