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Meet the Internet's Human Pinata: Jerry Yang

in News on November 6, 2008 at 5:42 pm PT

Well, this was certainly predictable–the mindless piling on of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang now taking place in the blogosphere, in the wake of yet another setback for the troubled Internet company. This time, it comes after the collapse of the search advertising deal with Google yesterday. BoomTown is not saying the co-founder of Yahoo does not deserve criticism for how he has run the company since last summer. Nonetheless, it is simply lazy to just call for Yang’s ouster as the panacea for what ails the company. It’s a feel-good suggestion, mixed with a creepy mob mentality, that offers no clear path to improvement.