AT&T's David Dorman.
AT&T announced their quarterly results today (bad as expected) and
this evening on
The Nightly Business Report on PBS, Susie Gharib
interviewed AT&T President and chief executive officer-designate David Dorman.
It was the usually lame television interview with the expected questions
like "how do you plan to grow your revenues?" and "how will Worldcom's
bankruptcy effect AT&T?" I'm sure Dorman answered the same questions
numerous times throughout the day. Here are some of my questions for
Mr. Dorman:
- Before assuming your current position you were at AT&T Concert.
For how long were you President of Concert?
- When AT&T recently closed down Concert they claimed a loss
of over 5 billion dollars. How much of that money are you personally
responsible for?
- How did you parlay that performance into becoming President of AT&T?
Why are questions like this just asked after a scandal breaks rather
than as matter of course? Are radio and television interviewers just
too dumb to think of good questions. Or are they afraid that nobody
will appear on their show if they do? I think the TV program
60 Minutes proves the latter wrong. My guess is the media,
the politicians, and the business people are all in this together and
each is just doing the other favors and the public gets screwed.
Anyway, I want a job where I get to ask such questions.