As always, you have given a wonderful and thought-provoking response. You are correct on all points. I always had my suspicions about any investment-oriented TV program. If this was such a great idea that they had come up with, why tell everyone? It's such an obvious trap and one I fell for years ago with a stock called 3com I think it was. It went to zero value a few years after this "great tip!" that was on a widely-watched show on one of the major networks.

I think the best thing to do these days is to just not look at the news for the most part because for many including me, the objective of these shows is to intentionally misinform or even worse, to program the audience to think a certain way. Unfortunately, I think that large swaths of the population are prone to do exactly that.