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Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote

29 points by nickb 19y ago

wallflower 19y ago
Is this the real Zuck? After that poor interview on CBS' 60 Minutes and the 'every 100 years' hype? "By now, Lacy was becoming aware of how she was losing the crowd, and said, "Anybody who's seen my (TV) show...has seen me throw a whole glass of water on (Techcrunch founder Michael) Arrington." With a sly look, Zuckerberg grabbed her water glass and moved it out of her reach."
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  Where can I see this video?
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tlrobinson 19y ago
Being a journalist at a tech conference/festival can be a dangerous thing... just ask the Dateline mole at Defcon last summer, Michelle Madigan: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.htm... Certainly these were different circumstances, though.
eusman 19y ago
this looks staged. I wonder how much she was paid
- rp 19y ago
  The Austin-American Statesman has video at: http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/m/73367 http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/m/73367 Judge for yourself.
  - eusman 19y ago
    thanks for the link Well, if you notice she listens carefully what he is saying which is quite contrary to her attitude that follows Also, she is just waiting his response to say what she is thinking. So, it seems she was ready to attack. Who paid her is the question to act like that. Or I'd just say is kind of normal reporter behaviour that tried to make the interview known. Also I didn't find her attitude so rush as the article describes. both got what they wanted
  - falsestprophet 19y ago
    Well, her posture is awful.
  - tim2 19y ago
    If the whole interview was like this then the article blows this way out of proportion.
  - doubleplus 19y ago
    eh... She dropped the ball in the last quarter of that, but I think he could have tossed a lifejacket instead of watching her drown.
foonamefoo 19y ago
Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?
- jgrahamc 19y ago
  This sort of thing makes me want to have public voting information on the site and the ability to remove votes by certain people from my own news.yc front page.
wumi 19y ago
maybe this 'journalist' has a book coming out and would like to raise more publicity about herself in order to get some interest in her book. seems to be working quite well seeing as this 'news' is posted on a lot of major tech sites.
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mosburger 19y ago
I dunno - I just asked a friend of mine who was there if it was as bad as it sounded in the article. His response was "it was worse." And this guy is a pretty normal, even-keeled, somewhat-well-known-web-2.0-blogger guy, so I'd bet he isn't overreacting.

29 points by nickb 19y ago

Is this the real Zuck? After that poor interview on CBS' 60 Minutes and the 'every 100 years' hype? "By now, Lacy was becoming aware of how she was losing the crowd, and said, "Anybody who's seen my (TV) show...has seen me throw a whole glass of water on (Techcrunch founder Michael) Arrington." With a sly look, Zuckerberg grabbed her water glass and moved it out of her reach."

tlrobinson 19y ago
Where can I see this video?
- deleted 19y ago
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tlrobinson 19y ago

Being a journalist at a tech conference/festival can be a dangerous thing... just ask the Dateline mole at Defcon last summer, Michelle Madigan: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.htm... Certainly these were different circumstances, though.

eusman 19y ago

this looks staged. I wonder how much she was paid

rp 19y ago
The Austin-American Statesman has video at: http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/m/73367 http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/m/73367 Judge for yourself.
- eusman 19y ago
  thanks for the link Well, if you notice she listens carefully what he is saying which is quite contrary to her attitude that follows Also, she is just waiting his response to say what she is thinking. So, it seems she was ready to attack. Who paid her is the question to act like that. Or I'd just say is kind of normal reporter behaviour that tried to make the interview known. Also I didn't find her attitude so rush as the article describes. both got what they wanted
- falsestprophet 19y ago
  Well, her posture is awful.
- tim2 19y ago
  If the whole interview was like this then the article blows this way out of proportion.
- doubleplus 19y ago
  eh... She dropped the ball in the last quarter of that, but I think he could have tossed a lifejacket instead of watching her drown.

foonamefoo 19y ago

Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?

jgrahamc 19y ago
This sort of thing makes me want to have public voting information on the site and the ability to remove votes by certain people from my own news.yc front page.

wumi 19y ago

maybe this 'journalist' has a book coming out and would like to raise more publicity about herself in order to get some interest in her book. seems to be working quite well seeing as this 'news' is posted on a lot of major tech sites.

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mosburger 19y ago

I dunno - I just asked a friend of mine who was there if it was as bad as it sounded in the article. His response was "it was worse." And this guy is a pretty normal, even-keeled, somewhat-well-known-web-2.0-blogger guy, so I'd bet he isn't overreacting.