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Rotten reporting: Is it just Apple coverage that ‘bites’?
All about Microsoft —
... I’ve always considered the way those of us in the press get access to information and execs as somewhat of an “insider baseball” kind of topic. But after reading Newsweek tech correspondent Dan Lyons’ diatribe about Apple and the “rotten” reporting by the press corps that covers that company, I thought it was worth touching on the slippery slope of “press access.” (It seems especially pertinent, as I still get readers asking me to “tell Steve Ballmer X” or “ask Steven Sinofsky Y”…. It’s just not that simple, folks.) Microsoft, Apple, Google — every major tech company — has a ...
Fake Steve HAs a pretty scathing view of the Apple PR machine
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Dan "Fake Steve" Lyons has penned a pretty nasty (but in many ways true) piece about the Apple PR Machine:
That's what happened to the poor guy at CNBC. Sure, he got his share of "exclusive" 10-minute spots with Steve Jobs. You can find them on YouTube. They look like training videos for a correspondence course on bootlicking. Now, of course, the CNBC guy says he's outraged. He sputters about how Apple has been irresponsible and "deplorable." His pals at Apple won't care. They're already moving on to the next useful idiot. ...
Dan Lyons: Calls Silicon Valley Press Corps Idiots - Compares Steve Jobs to Obama
Furrier.org - John Furrier's Personal Blog —
... I just read Dan Lyons story backpeddling from his ‘toolness’ on CNBC regarding Steve Jobs. I find it funny that he is calling Steve Jobs the corporate version of Barak Obama and that he can’t do anything wrong.
Dan writes: “The fact is, in the eyes of the media, Apple is the corporate equivalent of Barack Obama—a company that can do no wrong. Even in Silicon Valley, where much of the press corps are pretty much glorified cheerleaders (think of all those slobbering cover stories about the Google guys) Apple’s kid-gloves ...
Newsweek's Dan Lyons: I am "uncomfortable" covering Apple
Beet.TV —
... We read this morning Newsweek's Dan Lyon's rant about the "rotten press" corps in Silicon Valley and that PR people who are mostly paid to "tell lies. " We don't think that Apple handled the health issues around Steve Jobs properly, but we wonder why Dan is so worked up about Apple coverage these days. ...
The Truth
Mac Soda —
... Dan Lyons, who we know as Fake Steve, wrote an extraordinarily accurate piece about Apple’s PR. While it may seem negative, bitter or hateful, its true. Go check it out for yourself. As bad as it sounds, he’s right. ...
Rotten Reporting
SuperSite Blog —
... Dan Lyons finally takes on a very obvious problem: Apple has too many friends in the media and rather than be critical of the company, they simply suck up to Apple in return for "super-secret" access. ...
Fake Steve: As I Said, Apple Played And Punked CNBC
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Dan devotes his column this week to saying again what he said on CNBC two nights ago: Most of the media has entered into a "Faustian bargain" with the folks in Cupertino: ...
Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple
The Apple Core —
... [image] Newsweek’s Dan Lyons writes that the media’s coverage of Apple bites. His rationale? For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn’t doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months. If you haven’t seen Lyons infamous ...
When Tech Journalists Attack: Fake Steve Jobs, Gizmodo Lash Out At Jobs Coverage
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... . In a rant filled with ALL CAPS, EXCLAMATION MARKS AND F-BOMBS, he says that Gizmodo's reporting rumors about Jobs's health was good journalism, but the act of reporting rumors on Jobs's health is sleazy. Or something like that. It doesn't really make sense to me either. Newsweek's Dan Lyons, a/k/a "Fake Steve Jobs" condemns journalists who are suckups and sycophants to Apple and perpetuated the lie that Jobs was fine when it was obvious that he wasn't. I can't speak for all Apple journalists and bloggers, only myself. Yes, I am a fan of Apple. That doesn't prevent me from ...
Roundup: The Jobs saga continues, Circuit City razed, Hulu apologizes and more
VentureBeat —
Here’s the latest action:
The Steve Jobs saga continues — Talk about the Apple chief executive and his health issues remain everywhere you look. Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons says the media’s coverage of Apple “bites.” As you might expect after their heated exchange the other day, Lyons focuses on CNBC’s Jim Goldman. Meanwhile, the blog which Goldman criticized for its reporting on Jobs’ failing health initially, Gizmodo, featured a profanity-laced post from its editorial director, Brian Lam, today. He’s not angry about Goldman ...
Why Apple might be better off without Steve
mathewingram.com/work —
I know there are probably already nasty emails on their way to my inbox based solely on the headline of this post. Apple better off without Steve? How is that possible? It’s difficult to even think about the iconic consumer electronics company — now so much more than just a computer maker — without thinking about Steve Jobs. Apple is Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs is Apple. That’s one of the main reasons why so many people (me included) were so concerned that the company come clean about Jobs’ health over the past few months — because he is so intertwined with the company in people’s minds ...
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