Huh. Someone at the hyperbolically-named “Save the Internet” Coalition screwed up. In celebration of Ed Whitacre’s retirement, they made a satirical cartoon purporting to be his final speech to his management team.
They then linked to this video in a blog post with some of the “quotes” in the video. The only problem is that they didn’t do a very good job of marking it as satire. In fact, they wrote what appears to be a point-by-point rebuttal of Whitacre’s “speech.”
It got picked up by Slashdot this morning, and the comments there demonstrate that hardly any of Slashdot’s readers got the joke.
I’m sure this was an honest mistake on Save the Internet’s part. But so far, there’s no sign of an update more clearly labeling it as a parody. Yes, it’s obvious if you watch the video that it’s a parody, but there’s hardly any hint it’s a parody in the text of the post, and it shouldn’t have been that hard to predict that a lot of people would just read the text and not watch the video.
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