Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I present, for your reading and comprehension, this statement, allegedly from Apple, concerning Tuesday’s Macworld keynote address web broadcast:

Apple will not be making satellite coordinates available. Although the keynote WILL be available on our web site - it will NOT be available until sometime AFTER the keynote is over. They do NOT have a time determined, so it may not be immediately after the keynote is over.

This statement seems to have been received by a MacInTouch reader and posted on their site. That’s all good. What isn’t good is the paragraph that precedes it:

Steve Jobs has killed real-time webcasting and satellite broadcast of his Macworld Expo keynote, according to an Apple note forwarded by a MacInTouch reader:

Woah woah woah, stop just a minute. Where did this bit of exaggeration come from?

But wait, it gets better. Here’s what AppleInsider posted:

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, reportedly miffed over a series new product leaks, has abruptly pulled the plug on the realtime webcast and satellite broadcast of his Macworld Expo keynote, according to an Apple memo forwarded to the MacInTouch website.

Go back to the top and read the Apple statement. Where in that statement does it mention Steve Jobs, much less how he feels about product leaks? That’s quite a bit of extrapolation for which no evidence is provided. Additionally, both MacInTouch and AppleInsider state the the webcast was “killed” and that Apple “pulled the plug” on it. That can’t be, considering Apple never announced there would be a webcast to begin with. You can’t cancel a webcast that wasn’t scheduled.

Obviously, AppleInsider and some MacInTouch participants and don’t let facts get in the way of their conjectures, like most people and websites on the Internet.

If indeed Apple had planned a webcast but canceled it, if Steve Jobs was the one to “pull the plug” because he’s “miffed” about product leaks, provide evidence of such when you publish that information. Opinions casually stated as fact without supporting evidence make you, your website, and your readers look incredibly stupid.