Leo Laporte loses it

[lowrider69]

Good for Leo. I've been listening to and watching Leo for a long time and I never saw him get like this on air.

 

[Tim]

There is nothing wrong with being an elitest.... when you're right.

This is not one of those cases.

 

[CZroe]

God-damn NPR is giving this Mike Arrington asshole a platform by making him sound lke some sort of "transparency in media" advocate activist in their interview. I only caught the very end where they were talking about the New York Times and the Washington Post needing to voluntarily reveal any time there is a conflict of interest and something about how some independant news source was "the only one that got the reporting of The Iraq War right" (they have names for a reason; which war?) only to be FLOORED when the interviewer made a joke by "shamefully" revealing that they make money when you buy t-shirts and coffee mugs from their website and revealed that he was talking to Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch.

Spinning his Laporte debacle as some sort of personal cause in a crusade against all media including the NYT and the Post? Talk about pretentious. There was a pretty cool interview with Alexi Pajintov for the 25th anniversary of Tetris right after that that I found interesting, though I found it odd that they played Nintendo's Tetris theme as if it were iconic with Tetris and failed to mention Nintendo even once, despite their role in getting IP recognized (and licensed 😉) in Russia.

Damn I hate NPR. Everything's always blatantly one-sided and agenda-driven and now I see that even their interesting tech and gaming stories suffer from the same selective reporting.

 

[ballmode]

I loved Tech TV 🙂

I love Leo

and man I forgot that link to that asian guy who made that computer tower of the xbox/ps2/gamecube all inside one machine with the ability to use it as an actual computer too...

 

[SketchMaster]

Originally posted by: ballmode
I loved Tech TV 🙂

I love Leo

and man I forgot that link to that asian guy who made that computer tower of the xbox/ps2/gamecube all inside one machine with the ability to use it as an actual computer too...

Yoshi's Box.

Loved The Screen Savers!

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: ballmode
I loved Tech TV 🙂

I love Leo

and man I forgot that link to that asian guy who made that computer tower of the xbox/ps2/gamecube all inside one machine with the ability to use it as an actual computer too...

Yoshi's Y-Boxx?

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: CZroe
God-damn NPR is giving this Mike Arrington asshole a platform by making him sound lke some sort of "transparency in media" advocate activist in their interview. I only caught the very end where they were talking about the New York Times and the Washington Post needing to voluntarily reveal any time there is a conflict of interest and something about how some independant news source was "the only one that got the reporting of The Iraq War right" (they have names for a reason; which war?) only to be FLOORED when the interviewer made a joke by "shamefully" revealing that they make money when you buy t-shirts and coffee mugs from their website and revealed that he was talking to Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch.

Spinning his Laporte debacle as some sort of personal cause in a crusade against all media including the NYT and the Post? Talk about pretentious. There was a pretty cool interview with Alexi Pajintov for the 25th anniversary of Tetris right after that that I found interesting, though I found it odd that they played Nintendo's Tetris theme as if it were iconic with Tetris and failed to mention Nintendo even once, despite their role in getting IP recognized (and licensed 😉) in Russia.

Damn I hate NPR. Everything's always blatantly one-sided and agenda-driven and now I see that even their interesting tech and gaming stories suffer from the same selective reporting.

OK, here's the interview:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/06/12/08

Here's the part where he pretends to be talking about himself but is actually talking about his incident with Laporte:

BOB GARFIELD: At some point isn't it just better to divest yourself so that the issue [of conflicting interests] just goes away?

MICHAEL ARRINGTON: Yeah. So I announced two months ago, three months ago, that I'm actually going to divest myself of any interest in any start-ups. The funny thing is, I think friend conflicts of interest ? because I have so many friends that are sources ? are way more powerful than the few thousand dollars I've invested in a couple of start-ups.

Really, as long as people are accurately disclosing these conflicts in the articles they write, each and every one, I think at least the readers know what?s going on, and that?s the important thing.

BOB GARFIELD: All right. Mike, you've shamed me into confessing when you buy an On the Media tee-shirt or a coffee mug [SIGHS], we get a cut of the profits.

MICHAEL ARRINGTON: [LAUGHS] Well, as long as you disclose that in any articles about TechCrunch, I think that you?re going to be just fine.