When
Dan Lyons broke the story in The Daily Beast that Facebook had hired Burston Marsteller, the p.r. giant, to spread dirt on Google, the Cable Gamer's eye lingered on one name:
Jim Goldman. Goldman was one of the two BM execs who were implicated in the scheme. Indeed, by now
BM has admitted that it did exactly what Lyons said it had done.
And then The Cable Gamer remembered: Goldman had once been at CNBC; indeed,
TCG had written about Goldman back in January 2009, when he, Goldman, had seemingly tried to help cover up the truth about Apple CEO
Steve Jobs' health. (See, under the dictionary of definition of what
not to do in journalism, "currying favor with sources by covering up the truth.") Here's the
TCG flasback:
In other words, Goldman helped get Lyons kiboshed from CNBC back in 2009, when Lyons was completely right and Goldman was completely wrong.
Seems to The Cable Gamer that CNBC owes Lyons a big fat apology.
