Why Steve Jobs Is (Legitimately) Pissed at the Media

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I wasn’t present at Friday’s spe­cial iPhone 4 Press Conference held by Apple at their Cupertino Campus, but I fol­lowed the excel­lent live cov­er­age from Jason Snell at Macworld. Ignoring the specifics of the announce­ments (spoiler: there is no fuck­ing recall you fuck­tards), one thing jumped out at me: Steve Jobs was pal­pa­bly angry with the media.


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Emails From Steve

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Looking to get into the fun (and appar­ently lucra­tive) game of shop­ping around emails from Steve Jobs, I went ahead and sent him a note. Imagine my utter shock and amaze­ment when he answered. Here is a copy of our exchange:


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David Carr on Steve Jobs’ Health

I haven’t writ­ten about this sub­ject of Steve Jobs’ health issues much here, mainly because the vast major­ity of the cov­er­age of this issue has left me dis­gusted. If you’ve been fol­low­ing the Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast you know that I have been pretty vocal in my opin­ion that the cov­er­age of Steve’s issues has been tabloid – tacky at best, bor­der­ing on ghoul­ish at worst. So image my utter joy and delight to read a col­umn by David Carr in the New York Times agree­ing with my assess­ment. Thanks, David, for being a voice of decency amongst a bunch of fuck­ing vultures.

Hat tip to Daring Fireball

Joe Nocera Is a Slime Bucket

This one’s prob­a­bly not going to win me any friends; but then again, I’m not in this for the pop­u­lar­ity. As you all prob­a­bly know, one of the memes being bandied about in the media in the last week is the “Apple is ‘fuck­ing up’ by not dis­clos­ing Steve Jobs’ med­ical con­di­tion.” To which Apple has, so-far, replied with a firm “Steve’s med­ical con­di­tion is his busi­ness,” and an implied, “fuck you.”

At the cen­ter of this report­ing is one par­tic­u­lar piece of shit named Joe Nocera, who reports for the New York Times. Now, here’s the thing, I know a few things about Joe Nocera and his report­ing. Sadly, this is the part where many of you will tune out. But please take the time to click the link to the Deep Capture Blog in my side­bar. Deep Capture is the ongo­ing story of Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne’s fight against mar­ket manip­u­lat­ing hedge fund man­agers and the busi­ness media that is com­plicit in their attempts to fuck over pub­licly traded com­pa­nies. At the very least read this post from Deep Capture which deal specif­i­cally with the douchebag Joe Nocera.

The thing is, I am firmly

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And on the Lighter Side of Media Criticism.

Hahahha, fuck me this is a good one. Via Crooks and Liars: CNN Admits It Should Have Vetted Guest Expert Better. Apparently the “guest expert” dis­cussing the Spitzer sit­u­a­tion was a for­mer U.S. Attorney who lost his job after, “being accused of bit­ing a top­less dancer on the arm dur­ing a visit to an adult club after los­ing a big drug case.” No, CNN; I’m fairly cer­tain that you picked the absolute best pos­si­ble guest expert.