Not Everything Steve Jobs Does Is News

So when I made my post about Steve Jobs getting a liver transplant, I looked for more about it online and found this great article by a fellow named Kevin on GigaOM. Kevin makes some very interesting points in this article.The title of the post is “Are Steve Jobs’ Innards Really Any Of Our Business?”.

After thinking about it for a while, no, they aren’t. As we all know Steve Jobs has had many health problems over these recent years, hormone imbalance, Cancer, the liver transplant, whatever, but that really shouldn’t matter to us.

Steve definitely out of the Apple spotlight, even if he returned to work today, Apple has been smart by not talking about him as much and trying not to make his personal affairs public.

In fact, I think all this talk about Steve Jobs has gone way too far, like last year, when Steve had to publicly say during a keynote that the reports of his death were stupid, and I do exaggerate, that isn’t what he said, but that’s probably what he should have said.

Still don’t believe it’s gone too far? Let me point you to here, where some folks have been tracking where Steve Jobs has been on his private jet, via the internet.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Not everything Steve Jobs does is news.I will admit that there are things that Steve Jobs does, or something that has happened to him is news, but that still doesn’t mean that his flight numbers need to be put all over the internet so people can look at them and say “Holy crap this was Steve Jobs’ flight number.”

While we were obsessing over Jobs’ absence, we lost something even more important. We ignored the right of a human being to face a life crisis in private. We forgot what it would feel like to have strangers intrude on an experience that is disorienting, self-defining and unimaginable until it happens.

That excerpt is taken from Kevin’s post. He’s absolutely right, people seem to forget that Steve Jobs is also a person, he can be an icon too, and a hero, someone you look up to, whatever, but please try to respect him, you’ve got his flight records for goodness sake.

To end, I’d like to add this quote from Kevin’s post:

And while I hate to say it, I honestly think most of the coverage I’ve read about Jobs’ illness has less to do with him or Apple and more to do with others drawing attention to themselves.

Click that link, it perfectly backs up when I say “This is why I hate the WSJ and the NYT reporting on Apple and Steve Jobs.”

Big thank you to Kevin for the idea, see more of his work here.

JD

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