Comments on: Lacy Responds to Zuckerberg Keynote Disaster

By: Zuckerberg Interview Shows It’s a Wild, Wired World « Catching Flack

Zuckerberg Interview Shows It’s a Wild, Wired World « Catching Flack — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:10:06 +0000

[...] have watched the Zuckerberg-Lacy video, I have read the blow-by-blow blog account. I have watched a video of Lacy try to spin it as Zuckerberg’s fault, rather than her [...]

By: blinkdt

blinkdt — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:39:49 +0000

Please, use the word “like” one more time. Please. I just didn’t get enough of it. And she authored a book? Like cool.

By: Learning Interviews and Ethnography « Disparate

Learning Interviews and Ethnography « Disparate — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:34:36 +0000

[...] to focus on the “written” content, in response to the controversy. Quite clear in this video, even more so in her twittered reply. Both the video and the tweet are already (in)famous. [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:57:12 +0000

She’s blames the crowd for ruining SXSW? OMG. She must have a very strong support system at home. What a windbag. Go interview sorority recruits for RUSH week. Ask the hard questions.

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:13:16 +0000

“some guy” said it.

By: Community Guy, Jake McKee - Sarah Lacy still doesn’t get it

Community Guy, Jake McKee - Sarah Lacy still doesn’t get it — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:35:35 +0000

[...] internet quasi-celeb has published an article defending herself. (On top of her angry tweet and clueless video) Not only does her article not defend her position, it supports the naysayers and adds more fuel to [...]

By: Highlights & Observations From SXSWi 2008

Highlights & Observations From SXSWi 2008 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:55:27 +0000

[...] which has been much written about. Many people seem to agree that the interviewer was self-centered and didn’t understand her [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:08 +0000

As a young female journalist, I’m afraid Lacey is out there giving our kind a bad name. It’s unbelievable that she blames what she acknowledges as a shitty interview on her interviewee – the audience – the organizers – everyone but herself. The interviewer is in control. How could you ever, ever implicate the person you’re interviewing as the reason you had a bad interview? A great skill of a good journalist is coaxing a good interview out of a bad subject. And Zuckerman isn’t by any means a bad subject.

I know how it feels to have a shitty interview, but total denial is not a good public face.

By: Sara Summers

Sara Summers — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:42:18 +0000

She is just plain wrong on a few points:

- sxsw has high profile people every year; ever heard of Dan Rather, Malcolm Gladwell
- there wasn’t a few people in back causing problems, the whole crowd was horrified.
- sxsw is NOT a developer conference, only a small portion of the panels have ‘CSS’ or ‘AJAX’ in the titles…

By: Shane Robinson

Shane Robinson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:21:31 +0000

I was there.

It was that bad. It wasn’t just a few trolls in the back of the room. It was the entire audience.

What you can’t see on the recorded video is that people started leaving after 30 minutes. People were moaning and talking amongst themselves after 20 minutes.

There were 8 cameras there. I wish 2 would have been on them and the remaining 6 would have been pointed on the audience. Then those people that weren’t there could see how uncomfortable everyone one was.

The crowd gave her the benefit of the doubt for over 45 minutes and then finally had enough when Zuckerberg said to her, “You have to ask a question.” At that point, the crowd jumped to it’s feet and applauded for 45 seconds.

And the above video proves what we in the audience all learned that day, she doesn’t have a clue about who her audience was. And while she may be able to conduct written interviews that go through a tremendous amount of editing and rewrites, she’s not mature enough or quick on her feet to deal with an audience in real time.