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Liveblogging From Yahoo Annual Meeting: Yangtastic!

For all the criticism I have lobbed at Yahoo’s leadership team over the last year, they do clean up well and look good on stage.

Not that anything they are saying has been even slightly revelatory (Starting point! Must-buy advertising! Maximize shareholder value!).

Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang discussed the power of Yahoo (“We have a very good operating model.”), while Yahoo President Sue Decker talked about ads and products and CFO Blake Jorgensen reviewed finances.

“I think we have a terrific asset, I think we have terrific people,” said Yang.

You get the idea here. Zzzzzzzzz.

Of course. it’s almost the good part: Q&A!

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald