Comments on: Memo to All Crepe-Hangers: It Still Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn’t

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Sun, 31 May 2009 23:59:17 +0000

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By: Anyone Still Remembers Steve Jobs Is Human? | Profy | Internet news and commentary

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:54:01 +0000

[...] I think Kara Swisher is right calling the entire situation “flat-out macabre” while Om Malik has a very valid point [...]

By: Apple still has a credibility problem

Apple still has a credibility problem — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:25:12 +0000

[...] said this before, and I’ll say it again. Kara Swisher and others can argue that his health is no one’s business, and that’s a very sweet sentiment, but it’s just plain wrong. As John Byrne of [...]

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:41:18 +0000

Not!

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:41:01 +0000

Benz-stalking? Jobs is not exactly Britney.

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:40:18 +0000

Indeed. I am a lifer!

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:39:15 +0000

Well, see our disclosures. They are a good step in that direction.

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:38:35 +0000

Excellent point. Apple has surely changed.

And let’s hope Jobs is well too.

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:37:36 +0000

I could not agree more. Reporting is, um, hard.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:43:19 +0000

single sourcing for reporting on steve’s health: problematic, unethical, bad deal.

reporting on steve’s health: absolutely material, a matter of public record for investors, not an invasion of privacy.

end of story (not).

By: Mathue Taxion

Mathue Taxion — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:08:53 +0000

I think this discussion is rather morbid and borders obsession with this guys health. Certainly there are people in the area of the Apple Computer’s home offices that can drive by and see him driving around in his Benz. Certainly there are a few Stringers that live around there. : /

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:49:37 +0000

@ross – while that is an excellent point, I”d say a lot of the excitement tells me much more about the shallowness of the readership in certain places. I am glad that in the things I write, my audience will likely need more than 2 brain cells to understand what’s going on. Call that arrogant but to be honest, the quality of reportage and eyeball quotient in much of SV ‘reporting’ is close to zero. Kara has every right as a responsible reporter to make this point. She will be here a long time after the TC etc crowd have run out of things to say.

By: ross richardson

ross richardson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:11:53 +0000

I’m more concerned about the integrity of our media, as are all Americans. So I’m convinced Gizmodo’s writers need to prove they’re not hedge fund shills by releasing personal financial statements, including tax filings, bank statements and the like.

What? You say that would be an invasion of privacy?

(Note: I’m under no illusion they’d see any parallel here).

By: Dave Johnston

Dave Johnston — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:06:05 +0000

Yes. This.

Jobs is a legend. He brought Apple back for a second act.

But what the hardcore Mac crowd has failed to notice is that the past few years (iPod era) have been about moving the company mainstream. They’ve been steadily moving the product out of the hobby world and into mainstream culture. Into a world in which Jobs as Legend would not be required to sell product. I think they’re succeeding at this.

I don’t really care about that though…with respect to Steve’s health. Just hope he’s well period.

By: Omar Sultan

Omar Sultan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:21:16 +0000

@kara

Great post. Whatever Steve Job’s state of health, it is his business. As an Apple shareholder, I should have enough faith in Apple management to make the appropriate contingencies–if I do not, then I probably should not be a shareholder.

The broader, reoccurring issue you bring up is what kind of internal gating should social media outlets use before running with a story; although, I guess this is not just a “new media” problem, since CNN was bitten with this earlier this year.

Blogging, Twittering, etc have shown to have great power, but what about the culpability and responsibility that goes with that?