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Not Breaking News: Steve Jobs Not Coming Back to Work Early

by Peter Kafka
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:43 AM PT

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411px-steve_jobsGotta love the Internet: In addition to up-to-minute updates about breaking news, we also get superfast coverage of non-news. Today’s scoop? Steve Jobs, who said he wouldn’t be coming back to work at Apple until the end of June, isn’t coming back to work early.

That’s the gist of this Bloomberg report, which notes that the Apple (AAPL) boss isn’t expected to attend the company’s annual meeting this week. And for the record, I’ve confirmed the same thing with the company.

There’s more, of course–both in the Bloomberg piece and the subsequent blogosphere follow-ups–involving lots of sober chin-stroking about corporate governance issues and grave “we hate to do this, but we have to bring this up” speculation about Jobs’s health.

But if someone has real news about Jobs or the company–actual, substantiated information about the CEO’s health (a diagnosis from his smoothie maker doesn’t count) or the company’s products and prospects–I haven’t seen it. So let’s leave it at that.

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  • Sam Harrison
    peter, find some real news please
  • Peter Kafka
    Sam, you're back! Grumpy as ever.
  • Ian Mowat
    If he has had a malignant pancreatic tumor and a Whipple's operation (big op) and he presents next year with severe loss of weight, then he is unlikely to make it, medically speaking.
  • Ted Todorov
    @Ian Mowat That would indeed be the case if he had the surgery last year. The thing is he had it FIVE years ago in, 2004 (the cancer was discovered in 2003).

    Why are you posting if you don't know the facts? And should comments be moderated for obvious factual errors?
  • Yianni Alexiou
    And the purpose of this article is to raise readers' awareness of substandard internet journalism? Do you begin to grasp the multiple layers of irony?
  • Peter Kafka
    These comments are taking on an M.C. Escher quality. Love it.
  • Yianni Alexiou
    Let me rephrase: Is the purpose of this article to warn your readers against the pitfalls of hit-whoring journalism? To point the finger at those dime-a-dozen bloggers who throw a bit of Steve into the mix to generate some attention in bad taste? If not, I'd love to hear why you wrote this article because I can't quite figure out myself. And exactly what do you mean "love it", Peter? Loving the attention you managed to draw out of four posters for all the wrong reasons?
  • Peter Kafka
    Well, if the headline isn't clear, and the four paragraphs that follow don't make it clearer, then I don't know what else I can say, Yianni.
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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

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