Comments on: Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote

In one of the ugliest scenes at a conference I've seen, a capacity audience turned on Zuckerberg's interviewer and it only went downhill from there.

[shrippyshram]

Nerds

Nerds getting all nerdy and yelling at nerds to be nerdier.

Nerds suck.

[namtastic]

Surprised?

Why?. It's a conference for nerds. As a journalist, she should have known her audience first, and structured her interview second.

She was trying to serve some general, disconnected audience that would be reading about SXSW later in some newspaper report instead of serving the audience sitting right in front of her.

It's a CONFERENCE.

[Prokofy Neva]

Ugh Right Back At You

Ugh, Daniel Terdiman and the rest of the lapdog tech press savaging one of the few women journalists covering tech. Ugh, ugh, ugh. She's absolutely right. It's Digg-Dug mob rule, with the backchatters getting to define the news instead of some rational reporter probing a notoriousl coquettish and stuck-up "shy" source, Faceberg.

Seriously, the story is not about Lacy. It's about the male-dominated tech press, but more than that, it's about the idea that geeks can define the news from the back of the room and have more power than the "concentrated media" evil they purport to overthrow, which at least tries to ask the five Ws.

[ewelch]

It's Facebook

The guy got lucky, and a bunch of people with money threw it at
him. It will be irrelevant in five years and nobody in their right
mind with thing he's some kind of genius. He was good, and
lucky, but hardly comparable to Steve Jobs. Give him 30 years of
success, and then compare him to Jobs, or Warren Buffet.

As for Lacey, the woman lost control and reacted badly,
unprofessionally. Clearly she was over her head. She tried to be
tough without being prepared. Pathetic is the best way to
describe her performance.

[willardk]

animals should be treated as such

While the interviewer may have made mistakes....only low life animals with no social grace or skill behave like that audience. Did they forget they weren't at home in their underwear picking their nose and looking at missed connections on craig's list. They were with other humans.....

[poprockskill]

So many "Why's"

Why is there even the least interest to listen to a CEO at a music festival, even if he is in charge of something as fascinating as a (drum roll) *social networking* website.

Why do we care at all about what this Lacy individual did during this interview which would have been as exciting as grey gruel even if everything had gone as planned?

"The Internet: We Make **** Out Of Everything" (c)

[wookiecontrol]

Lacy says audience ruined Sxsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccLJnICdJGI

I like it when she says the audience ruined SxSw

[Joe_Patrick]

It seems pretty clear that Sarah Lacy had a bad night. But, in her defense, audiences need to understand that their disregard for etiquette had quite an impact on the quality of the interview. It's unfortunate, too, because had the audience upheld some common decency maybe Lacy would have turned it around and given them something more to their liking. I've noticed a growing number of these snob-mob audiences over the past few years. America's poor reputation around the world goes well beyond Bush and Co. I hope young Americans start abandoning their sense of entitlement--because it casts a dark cloud over events like the one last night.