Henry Blodget Tech Ticker Puts Yahoo Finance at SEC Risk
Yahoo touts it is making video advertising “easier to buy.” One thing is certain, IT IS PUTTING ITSELF AT VIDEO RISK, thanks to the disgraced millionaire, SEC-fined, once Merrill loud mouth.
Henry Blodget continues giddily milking (blogging) the Microsoft bid for Yahoo untill the cows come home!
Way back in pre Microsoft-Yahoo fever days (December 2007) I noted: Henry Blodget Slams eBay’s Whitman: Yahoo’s Yang Next?, asking WILL HENRY BLODGET SOON BE CALLING FOR YAHOO CEO JERRY YANG’S HEAD, VIA YAHOO’S OWN TECH TICKER????
Two months later, Blodget pounced on Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by declaring that the Yahoo “once great brand and franchise” has already been “close to being history” for the past two years. Today, the very brand that Blodget called “history” confirms it is the proud new host to Blodget for its Tech Ticker video finance show debut.
Blodget has a history of deeming Yahoo “history.” Blodget Yahoo! headlines circa 2007:
“The Real Reason Yahoo’s Revenue Per Search Stinks”
“Google Great, Yahoo a Mess”
“Yahoo Lights On, Nobody Home”
IS YAHOO A BLODGET MASOCHIST?
After all, while Blodget was crying out loud about what he disses as ”the formerly great company,” aka Yahoo, in November, 2007, Yahoo was wooing the SEC-disgraced, banned from Wall Street, “analyst” to spout off about Wall Street, under the Yahoo banner!
Ever adept at playing on both sides of a fence, Blodget lent his hypocrtical hand to Yahoo with ”open letters” to the company and Jerry Yang in 2007, stepping up to “help” a Yahoo deemed by Blodget to be “shrinking away pathetically forever”:
Dear Jerry,
It’s time to start firing people.
Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider
YES! You go Blodget: Jerry, start your firing by dismissing Henry, now a smiling public face of the very Yahoo he loves to publicly humiliate.
Blodget will continue to whip the Web into a frenzy for his own unique financial advantage, but Yang’s Yahoo Finance ought to know better.
Who does know better? Lauren Feldman, who decries Yahoo’s embrace of a SEC-banned “scum bag piece of shit,” at Yahoo:
Yahoo, in a bid to completely lose credibility is developing a show with Henry Blodget, a live show no less, about the financial markets….If the SEC bans you for life, you fucked up pretty good…Blodget touted all kinds of bullshit while privately knowing it was bullshit, lots of innocent people lost money…why Yahoo would pick this guy to do a financial show is beyond me…If anything, the Yahoo Blodget deal will expedite the SEC coming down on the Web…All of these bullshit financial sites and quote unquote experts, especially disgraced ones, who have been banned for fucking life…Yahoo needs to get its head out of its ass…like there aren’t enough analysts out there, they have to pick Blodget…Big mistake.
AND, a BIG mistake the SEC may cause Yahoo Finance to regret.
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