There's an old joke that goes, Why don't analysts look out of the window in the mornings? So they'll have something to do in the afternoon. Turns out, that's wrong -- they actually spend their mornings on the phone calling every Verizon store they can find (registration required).
OK, full disclosure: some journalists think that they and analysts do remarkably similar jobs, except that analysts have the cojones to add a few zeros to their bill
