Schmidt stonewalls reporter that flew cross-country for interview

Ryan Block — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:01:06 +0000

It’s not too often I directly relate to CNET reporters (they’re often doing different things in different ways than us), but I totally feel for Elinor Mills — the way Eric Schmidt treated her as a member of the press is pretty weak. But worse, I’d say, is that his PR / handlers didn’t make it completely clear ahead of time that this wasn’t a general interview, and that she was expected to stick to only one topic — that day’s announcement, which happened to be the excruciatingly dry news about Google Health. (Typically when I get high level executive interviews anything similar to that I just turn them down. Really, what’s the point?) I don’t know if I’ve ever been stonewalled that bad though, that’s rough — very poor form having her fly all the way out for ten minutes of nothing, Google. I don’t know about anyone else, but I want to see a redux — and from Mountain View or SF, next time.

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Schmidt stonewalls reporter that flew cross-country for interview