Grabbing a whopping 79% percent of the votes in CNBC's "Face of Business 2007" viewer poll, Steve Jobs emerged the clear winner as the most popular face of innovation and technology atop a huge pile of almost well known faces of business in 2007. Other mugs included "The Google Guys: Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt" who hauled in 3% and ranked a dismal fourth place, beaten out by The American Homeowner which includes far too many faces to distinguish any one person in the crowd and Citigroup's, Chuck Prince who took second place with 7% because CNBC included a picture of Chuck making a really weird face. No one likes a weird face, so that would also explain the low ranking of Lloyd Blankfein from Goldman Sachs.
Zuckerberg Lloyd Blankfein Chuck Prince Homeowners
It would seem that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg should have faired better
than 7th place having the word "face" in his company name and access to
votes from a massive social network, but no such luck. The fact that Zuckerberg
appeared in a press photo with the Facebook logo on a wall and an arrow
pointing to him definitely hurt his ranking. The photo was perceived by
many as forced and cheesy even though the poll was not a photo contest.
(note to Mark: When you try hard, you die hard.)
All things considered Steve Jobs should be honored for his tremendous innovation at Apple in 2007, but not via some backwards ass list of faces created by CNBC, a pairing that goes together as well as a scalpel and a scrotum (no offense to victims of a senseless vasectomy). Let's face it, CNBC is an attention whore like any other business news source out there. They follow three golden rules of journalism in order to capture their share of a huge audience, use the name Apple, iPhone and Steve Jobs as often as possible. (entire list)
"So, for Apple and Jobs, it’s a job well done in ‘07. But as expectations grow, will Jobs get the job done in '08?" Source: CNBC Will CNBC meet viewer expectations and release another dumb poll in '08? Count on it!
[via MacDailyNews]
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