The entire Meredith Whitney story has taken on a surreal quality.
Since writing our article yesterday I have been searching on-line for stories and articles discussing other peoples reactions to Whitney's newly-minted fame and "Fortune"
I found this article from the streetinsider asking, as we did, "Is this the bottom?"
I saw a video where Meredith's husband, WWE "superstar" John Layfield suggested tongue-in-cheek that this was HIS chance to give back to the "smaller people like you."
Fortune actually interviews Whitney at a WWE event. (Certainly the first place most of us would think of to discuss Wall Street!)
During the interview Whitney exclaims about an over-acted, choreographed, injury, "No, I'm telling you, it's real,".....this time.
By and large the reaction from most sources is similiar to mine. This is the sort of thing that you see at the end of a cycle, not the beginning.
As I scoured the various news articles relating to this event I couldn't help thinking that it had the same surreal paparazzi quality familiar to most current media offerings.
I was also shocked to see that a handful of sites had links to our article. (I'm guessing that some kind of web-crawler must search the internet for headlines and then automatically post links.)
And I can't help wondering if Layfield and Whitney might not be the next reality stars. After all, fellow WWE Wrestler Hulk Hogan has his own "reality" show and while he is certainly more famous than Layfield, he doesn't have a famous wife.
Since writing our article yesterday I have been searching on-line for stories and articles discussing other peoples reactions to Whitney's newly-minted fame and "Fortune"
I found this article from the streetinsider asking, as we did, "Is this the bottom?"
I saw a video where Meredith's husband, WWE "superstar" John Layfield suggested tongue-in-cheek that this was HIS chance to give back to the "smaller people like you."
Fortune actually interviews Whitney at a WWE event. (Certainly the first place most of us would think of to discuss Wall Street!)
During the interview Whitney exclaims about an over-acted, choreographed, injury, "No, I'm telling you, it's real,".....this time.
By and large the reaction from most sources is similiar to mine. This is the sort of thing that you see at the end of a cycle, not the beginning.
As I scoured the various news articles relating to this event I couldn't help thinking that it had the same surreal paparazzi quality familiar to most current media offerings.
I was also shocked to see that a handful of sites had links to our article. (I'm guessing that some kind of web-crawler must search the internet for headlines and then automatically post links.)
And I can't help wondering if Layfield and Whitney might not be the next reality stars. After all, fellow WWE Wrestler Hulk Hogan has his own "reality" show and while he is certainly more famous than Layfield, he doesn't have a famous wife.
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2 comments:
Wow her husband is arrogant!
Although I haven’t heard of Meredith Whitney before, I read the blog and saw her on the cover of Fortune, and now realize who she is. You’ll have to excuse me; I try to stay away from Fox News. While many companies don’t like her, you have to respect her education and the calls that she makes, since most of her predictions have been true. Maybe they should give her a reality show spot…..only in this show, she can give some of her knowledge to the rest of us and maybe, just maybe the economy will get better.
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