Month: October 1998

“People want hard-hitting information based right here. Most of our competitors are based in California, but stocks trade here.”

Jim Cramer, infamously goateed chairman of TheStreet.com, whose urge to hype New York City occasionally collides with the interests of his online brokerage advertisers, New Media News, 25 September 1998

“We’re living in a world now with a gigantic intercom system, like families have, or a giant security camera in a bank that’s always on.”

Jonathan Broder, former Washington bureau chief of Salon, on the global surveillance regime that the Internet has introduced, Wired News, 30 September 1998