It’s Independence Day, yet I can’t see much independence beneath the surface.
It’s becoming very hard to get any news from the main blogs regarding the Yahoo! deal. Here’s why:
- Tech Crunch is sponsored by MSFT, so that might explain its uber anti-Yahoo stance.
- Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget does a video show on Yahoo, called Tech Ticker.
- All Things D’s Kara Swisher’s pay stubs are proverbially signed by Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. is gunning for Yahoo!, too. You know if she gets out of line Rupert will dispatch her to cover the melting glaciers in the Arctic… and you know he will do it.
- Paid Content is too busy planning the EconYahoo conference.
- The NYT are just happy some other company is the target of activist shareholders…
Is it just me or is there no such thing as independent reporting anymore? And yes, before I step behind a glass wall, let me say, I wrote about YHOO for two years while holding shares, but lord knows some of the stuff I wrote was downright negative and critical enough to send the stock into a tail spin if more than eight people read this blog…
But the difference is, this is an executive’s blog…
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