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alleyinsider.com - 1/15/2009

Fake Steve Jobs Banned From CNBC For Life

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Newsweek's Dan Lyons -- "Fake Steve Jobs" -- is banned from CNBC for life because of his appearance on the cable network earlier this evening. In a special report about Steve Jobs' stepping down from day-to-day operations at Apple (AAPL), Lyons tells CNBC tech reporter Jim Goldman that he got ...

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blog.wired.com - 1/15/2009

Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple

— blog.wired.com — Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple is likely to be permanent, analysts say. In a letter to... Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are "more complex than I originally ... (more) Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple

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cnbc.com - 1/15/2009

For Apple's Jobs, What a Difference a Week Makes - Tech Check with Jim Goldman

— cnbc.com — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is admitting that his health issues have not only become a serious distraction... for him, his family and the Apple community, but they've also become more "complex" than Mr. Jobs had originally thought. He'll take himself out of the ... (more) For Apple's Jobs, What a Difference a Week Makes - ...

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valleywag.gawker.com - 1/14/2009

Steve Jobs Takes 'Medical Leave' from Apple

— valleywag.gawker.com — CNBC's website is reporting that Steve Jobs , Apple's heroic CEO, is taking a six-month leave of... absence to deal with his declining health. It is the best thing for Jobs. And for Apple. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and its aftereffects since ... (more) Steve Jobs Takes 'Medical Leave' from Apple

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Why CNBC's Tech Reporter Keeps Coming Up Short
Gawker: valleywag — ... on display in his aggressively incorrect denials of Apple CEO Steve Jobs's ill health — and not see a Napoleon complex, which he exercises at the expense of his reporting. (And his career: CNBC already has a short, angry man in Jim Cramer.) Ridiculing a man behind his back for his height? So low. Valleywag would never stoop to that level. We'd say it to his face. Even if it hurts our neck a little. Update: A big man, indeed: CNBC has banned Lyons from the network for life, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Or not, ...

Lyons Gets Banned From CNBC(Last Jobs Related Post, I Swear)
TomsTechBlog.com — ... Silicon Valley Insider reports that Dan Lyons has been banned from CNBC for life because of the appearance embedded below.  Specifically for the portion of the video that begins about about 3:30... ...

CNBC Bans Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons
Gearlog — ... One of said angry heads was Newsweek's Dan Lyons--that's the former Fake Steve Jobs to you. His frustrated assessment that CNBC's Jim Goldman was "punked" by PR reps at Apple (at around 3:30 in the accompanying video) was enough to get the writer banned for life from the financial network. ...

Lyons: CNBC “played and punked” by Apple spin machine
The Apple Core — ... This interview of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons on CNBC is definitely worth a watch. In in Lyon’s claims that CNBC’s Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman was “played and punked” by the Apple spin machine on the issue of Steve Jobs’ health. Speaking about Apple’s transparency (or lack thereof) on the matter, Lyons says that “Apple never had much credibility” and in a pointed slam at Goldman, Lyons says that there’s two kinds of reporters that cover Apple, “the kind that realize that they’re getting snowed, bullied and blocked out… and the other kind who suck up, in order to get ...

The perils of reporting on Steve Jobs’ health
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... a turnaround, and it led to perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the whole affair: a live segment on CNBC Wednesday afternoon in which Newsweek’s Dan Lyons (a.k.a Fake Steve Jobs) confronted Goldman and accused him of “sucking up” to Apple to get access to the company and, as a result, getting “played and punked.” The five-minute segment is the equivalent of a journalistic car wreck — you can’t stop watching it — and has reportedly resulted in Lyons getting banned from CNBC for life. ...

'Fake Steve' chides CNBC's Goldman in source foofaraw
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... According to Silicon Alley Insider, a source close to the matter said that Lyons had been banned from appearing on CNBC again, though CNBC spokesman Kevin Goldman (no relation) said "Real Dan" had not been banned. ...

CNBC: Fake Steve Jobs Not Banned
Gearlog — ... Things may not be looking up for the real Steve Jobs at moment, but at least his fake, online counterpart, Dan Lyons, can breathe a sigh of relief. Reports from Alley Insider regarding a "lifetime ban" may have been blown slightly out of proportion. ...