Ryan Tate of Valleywag reports that a Twitter post by Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray while Apple CEO Steve Jobs was demonstrating the iPad to the paper’s staff upset the executive.
I will say that Apple’s general paranoia about news coverage is truly extraordinary— but that’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know.
“Indeed, Apple is a notoriously tight-lipped company, particularly under Jobs, and is constantly trying to control the flow of news about its product. Apple sued a teenaged blogger who published scoops about unreleased products; it lied about Jobs’ health problems; Jobs called a New York Times columnist a ‘slime bucket‘ for writing about said health problems; and an employee of key Apple contractor Foxconn had his apartment illegally searched after losing an iPhone prototype (he later committed suicide amid intense pressure from his employer).”
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