Mark Zuckerberg On 60 Minutes: Still Weird
Posted by daroldcuba on Monday, Dec 06, 2010
A lot of questions were left out of Zuckerberg’s 60 Minutes interview last night. Foremost among them: can he get any weirder? Even for the most geekiest geek, Zuckerberg is one strange dude.
The big “exclusive” here, Leslie Stahl tells us, is – wonder upon wonders – another Facebook redesign! Oh wow.
And: does.he.ever.blink?
The comparisons to stalkers and serial killers and reptilian aliens aren’t necessary. The “toddler CEO,” as Kara Swisher once called him, almost has the permanent look of a child who is caught red handed doing something awful but is doing his best to hold that poker face and convince you that he didn’t do it.
And another thing, PaidContent points out:
It’s high time to see how he’ll do outside his comfort zone. Like how about a Zuckerberg-led tour of the Newark public school system he just gave $100 million to—Stahl didn’t even mention it!
Who’d want to drink the snake oil he’s selling giving away for free, to the tune of between 35-50 billions of dollars of valua[ation]/profits (is there a difference anymore?) which has brought him a personal worth of $7 billion? (Yeah, yeah, we know: only about 500 million sheeple lovely citizens.) Things seem more than a little creepy here, even the interweb geeks are all a-rumble-grumble. As a member of the NY Tech Meet Up listserv queried:
why did both Lesley Stahl and Diane Sawyer do puff pieces on Zuck, and throw him such softballs? What happened to the 60 Minutes of old, where grown men would sweat like a whore in a nunnery when facing Mike Wallace? Yeah, why didn’t Mike Wallace interview Zuck, and why wasn’t the first question, “Where do you get off with your disrespect of your user’s privacy?”
There’s a saying in Nigeria: “God keeps the flies away from the cow that has no tail”. That is the reason why I am not the person asking “toddler CEO” the tough questions that we all need the answers to, I guess.
Did the 60 Minutes of old go the way of the “friend,” – the one that existed before Facebook? From here on, the show shall now be known as “60 Minuets.” “60 Pirouettes” may fit even better, considering how they pranced around the real questions. Another nail in that journalism coffin.
Watching this left images of sheep prancing along joyously to their own slaughter to the tune of Modest Mouse’ ‘Float On’ running through my mind, and will for quite some time. Indefinitely.
A female friend (of Asian descent) noted that he “had small hands” and “dated Asian girls” and said, snarkly “You know what that means.” To which I replied, “I do not. And I’m not sure that I want to.” She told me anyway. Oh, boy, there might be some other issues at play here.
Better go hash them out with your Facebook friends. And ’’like’’ us while you’re at it.
More Zuckerberg on Motherboard.
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