July 23, 2002

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. Posted by mjm at July 23, 2002 10:07 PM
Comments

I think that AT&T has a major problem starting with the Board of Directors. Why did they hire Mr. Dorman, and what has he done for the company? How about nothing but collect a big pay check! Mr Dorman is a typical AT&T executive, without any money. This is historically a losing proposition. I don't think that AT&T has a chance to survive, its too late. If the stock holders want a final chance, they should fire the entire Board of Directors (not the first time this has been said) and dump duh dah Dorman. I say this easily, because they could hire anyone and it would be an improvement.

As an ex stockholder I know of what what I speak.

duh dah Dorman finally finished it for me when he spread the final bullshit to his Wall Street buddies that by leaving the Residential Business {which is currently 30 % of revenues) the company would finally be cheap enough for his buddies at Southern Bell to buy. Thereby getting him a new job at Southern Bell, at the cost of AT&T shareholders.
Now why would anyone put their money at this mans disposal?

Posted by: alfred james at August 2, 2004 12:45 AM

So what if he is your dad? You shouldn't be getting any special reatment. Your dad endorses junk like MTV's Real World, he has no morals and no soul.

Posted by: M at February 9, 2004 11:41 PM

david dorman is my dad!!!!!!! so be nice!!!

Posted by: Lindsey at August 9, 2003 03:23 AM

I cannot wait until I can tune into www.mjmrealityradio.com to hear your new no-holds-barred Internet talk radio show! Maybe Dorman would show up via a telephone patch link?

Posted by: Schuyler Quackenbush at September 10, 2002 06:03 PM
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