Looks like Google has updated its arrogance algorithm again. After dismissing Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over video clips on YouTube as a “mistake” at our D5 conference in May, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken another shot at the media conglomerate and its CEO Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman. Chatting with reporters at a hotel bar at the 25th annual Allen & Co. moguls meeting early this morning, Schmidt slagged Viacom as compulsively litigious. “Viacom is a company built from lawsuits, look at their history,” he said. “Look who they hired as CEO: Philippe Dauman, who was the general counsel for Viacom for 20 years.”
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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Looks like Google has updated its arrogance algorithm again. After dismissing Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over video clips on YouTube as a “mistake” at our D5 conference in May, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken another shot at the media conglomerate and its CEO Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman. Chatting with reporters at a hotel bar at the 25th annual Allen & Co. moguls meeting early this morning, Schmidt slagged Viacom as compulsively litigious. “Viacom is a company built from lawsuits, look at their history,” he said. “Look who they hired as CEO: Philippe Dauman, who was the general counsel for Viacom for 20 years.”
