Don’t Give Certain People Microphones or a Platform
Business Week's Sarah Lacy responds to her interview criticism
Here’s a video clip of a SXSW interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, hosted by Business Week tech columnist Sarah Lacy … that’s been panned by every geek with a Tumblr account.
Audience members, it appears, did not appreciate Lacy’s interjections with her own anecdotes, her inability to form a question, and her general fawning over her interview subject.
After the interview, which drew outbursts from the audience, Lacy explained what the hell went down. Hint: She blames attendees for causing such a commotion that SXSW will never get high-profile guests again!
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The problem is not that she’s a female in a man’s industry, it’s that she came off as flighty, self-absorbed and a lightweight. What other tech journalist goes on in a flirty Valley girl voice recounting anecdotes about herself instead of formulating weighty questions? She embarrassed herself, no one else did that for her.