“Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn’t pay for better press than this,” Michael Arrington reports for TechCrunch.
“Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he’d just been in a bar fight. He has a very bad black eye and a bandage over part of his forehead. I contacted the show’s producers to hear what happened. Earlier today, they said, Rose tripped in a pothole while walking on 59th Street in Manhattan. He was carrying a newly purchased MacBook Air and made a quick (but ultimately flawed) decision while falling: sacrifice the face, protect the computer,” Arrington reports.
“Luckily the MacBook Air survived the fall,” Arrington reports.
Full article with additional, larger images here.
That’s what I like…a man who has his priorities straight!
I was truly surprised to read this story, since Mr. Rose frequently introduces Bill Gates on his program as his dear friend.
I think his wife beats him and this is just a good cover story
Maybe Gates uses a MacBook Air in secret??
slow news night…
Ironically, the MacBook Air is equiped to handle these sorts of bumps and bruises. If anyone happens to have been walking by w/ a camera at the time, PLEASE post on YouTube!!
“Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn’t pay for better press than this,” Michael Arrington reports for TechCrunch.”
Ummm, wouldn’t it be great press if Charlie actually told his audience, on air, why he looked like that. Unless I missed something, Arrington had to call the show to find out why Charlie looked like he was in a bar fight.
So where’s the great press in that? A few people who read Arrington or MDN will know, but most of Charlie’s viewers will never know the story, so Apple’s not getting any great press over that.
@ Just another Jeff
Arrington’s audience in much larger in his mind.
I nominate Charlie Rose for the Medal for Honor for Valor for his heroic sacrifice of his face to protect his beloved MB Air.
His courageousness directs great credit upon himself, Apple and all Mac lovers everywhere.
Er, sorry that ‘courageousness’ of which you speak is more likely plain old courage.
Slap on the wrist.
@ Nit Pick
Good lord, man…woman,,,whatever. You couldn’t recognize that as satire?
For that, you need a good old-fashioned slap upside the head.
And, oddly enough, the pavement kept asking him “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Actually, PBS just told him to hit the road…..
Another beat reporter pounding the pavement
‘You think I look bad, you outta see the pothole I left in the other guy…’
I heard he came away from this smelling like a Rose….
An Apple a day does NOT keep the doctor away.
Had he died, the Macbook would have been Air to his fortune.
Don’t quit your day job, TT.
“That’s it, no more gum for me”.
“I hope the wife buys this whole ‘fallin down’ crap”.
@ TT
Wasn’t that Dan Rather?
And, uh, it looks like you’re on a roll.
yeah this story is pretty funny and … in a way…. really weird… not sure id do the same. probably try to make a split second decision to hold the MBA in one hand and brace myself a bit with he other.
on a side note,
has anyone else noticed how in every article there’s always a few people who always comment on everything (not that it’s a bad thing)? The really dedicated MDN people such as Towertone, ChrissyOne, and Ampar (who has yet to comment this article) and then there are a bunch of other people who only comment every once in a while (such as myself)?
Someone give TT a nudge. I think he’s stuck.
And the number one thing heard that day
“Ooh, a penny!”