Yahoo! shake-up: Bartz fired as CEO

What does Yahoo do again, because the next CEO needs to figure that out?

 

Better than being fired by text, I guess. Though it is ironic that the company that brought free email to the masses fires a big wig over the phone.

 

She was making $50 million a year. She'll be OK even without the proper send-off.

Kind of the Andrew Dice Clay of CEOs. Made a fortune off a foul mouth until everyone realized there wasn't much else there.

 

So did she start the email, "Hickory, dickory dock..."

 

Partly because I don't know and partly because I don't give a shit that I don't know and aren't ashamed to admit such, was she responsible for hiring Yahoo!'s bloggers?

Now, the Miami story a couple of weeks ago required a patient bulldog of a reporter, and it was nice to see some good, old-fashioned investigative journalism in this piece-of-shit new-world business of ours. I'll give Yahoo! the fact it has hired some fine writers to cover sports.

But those blogs are shit, absolute worthless piles of shit. I still find it hard to believe that people in this day and age settle for that crap, yet people do. So in that regard, good riddance.

 

Yep. CEO of one of the world's largest companies, one of the most powerful people in the business world, that's exactly what she's doing, figuring out who will cover the NBA on a daily basis. That's why she got fired in fact, it had nothing to do with losing revenue to Google and Facebook, it was because those blogs weren't entertaining enough.

(Open your window. There is an entire world economy that does not revolve around sportswriting.)

 

I was out of date -- she only got $12M last year. Had to be quite a lifestyle adjustment after she made $47M in 2009, her first year on the job.

She fleeced the Bay Area worse than Barry Zito.

 

Clearly, she wasn't motivated enough by the $48 million she earned in 2009 and just the $12 million she earned last year. She needed another tax cut.

 

Since Bartz is gone, who do I email my prep football gamer to. Bartz said she liked my. Work and there was a chance I could get hired on when they had an opening. I'm probably out of luck now and have to go back to Bleacher Report.