No Leeway For Lacy?
It’s been written about (and Twittered, Meebo’d and whateverelsed about) ad nauseum, so it’s almost not worth discussing further, but there’s something kind of disturbing about the kerfuffle around Sarah Lacy’s keynote interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg at the SXSW Interactive conference.
By various accounts, Lacy was described as unprepared and uninteresting. By other accounts she was described as “flirty” and “fawning.” As we’ve all seen before, the boys’ club mentality of the tech blogosphere can spiral out of control – let’s hope that’s not why Sarah Lacy was getting skewered all last week by the technorazzi. Clearly Lacy has a conversational interviewing style that is a bit outside the norm, but obviously it’s served her well – she’s been a reporter at BusinessWeek since her early 20s and has signed a six-figure book deal. Also, let’s not forget that Zuckerberg is a notoriously tight-lipped interview and that counts for a lot.
Maybe Lacy did do a bad job – though it’s tough to see how a BusinessWeek reporter would be that unprepared for an interview with perhaps Silicon Valley’s most famous CEO – but it would still serve everyone’s best interest to keep gender and stereotyping out of the discussion.
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