Yahoo tries an end-run around reporter-nemesis Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher, looking cinematic.
12:36 pm Jul. 17, 20121
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According to Business Insider, the board of Yahoo went out of its way to make sure news about Marissa Mayer being named the company's new C.E.O. didn't break with Kara Swisher, the wry and aggressive AllThingsD reporter whose sources within the struggling web behemoth are leakier than a faucet.
Instead, it appeared that Yahoo placed the exclusive with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times.
Swisher's initial silence on the matter did not go unnoticed:
Still nothing from @karaswisher
— Lauren Indvik ★ (@laureni) July 16, 2012
But I can't wait to read it when it comes outRT @laureni: Still nothing from @karaswisher
— Megan McCarthy (@Megan) July 16, 2012
Indeed, Swisher has since filed four items about Mayer's appointment, stacking them with palace intrigue and the following loud-and-clear message to Yahoo brass:
"FYI, I permanently live in the air vent above your office, and I ain’t going anywhere, no matter who the CEO of Yahoo is, and no matter what bare-knuckled assistant — Hey, Judy! Hi, Roxie! — is deployed to try [and] kill me."
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Kara Swisher is the lesbian wife of a very senior female exec at google. Talk about a blaring conflict of interest. Swisher states in her disclosure that Megan makes her own decisions regarding her google stock. But swisher and her lover ran to city hall to get married in CA to seize the then current gay marriage law. So much for gay marriage being about sharing the household responsibility. Or you have a major coi here.