I especially liked this paragraph...
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/...ork-times-struck-up-bond-with-rupert-murdoch/
When people again started to question Jobs’ health in 2008 after the unveiling of the iPhone 3G, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera wrote a column criticizing Apple’s culture of secrecy regarding Jobs’ health. As he was seeking comment from Apple, Jobs himself called Nocera:
“This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant asshole who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” After that rather arresting opening, Jobs offered up some information about his health, but only if Nocera would keep it off the record. Nocera honored the request, but he was able to report that, while Jobs’s health problems amounted to more than ‘a common bug,’ “they weren’t life-threatening and he doesn’t have a recurrence of cancer.” Jobs had given Nocera more information than he was willing to give his own board and shareholders, but it was not the full truth.
What this shows is that Jobs the Genius, was also Jobs the liar....
Murdoch later said he was used to people like Jobs complaining about Fox. “He’s got sort of a left-wing view on this,” he said.
Murdoch agreed to have his staff create a highlight reel of a week of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck’s shows, and Jobs later told Isaacson that he was going to ask Jon Stewart’s staff to put together a similar highlight reel. He apparently never sent it to Murdoch, who says in the book he would have been happy to have seen it.
Thought that was ironic that Murdoch sent Jobs a highlight reel of Beck and Hannity....
And Jobs wanted to go to Jon Stewart (a comedian) for a similar highlight reel....
I guess Jobs like most lefties get their talking points from comedians....
