Ah, Youth: Zuckerberg Meets Interview-Zilla

In a remarkable and aching smackdown of a media operative, journalist Sarah Lacy was unanimously rebuked for her interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the SXSW ’08 conference last week. According to formal news reports in AdAge and a painful blow-by-blow reporting at MediaBistro. Lacy apparently meandered, self-promoted and descended into personal anecdotes to the point of being heckled by the audience. Bloggers and Twitter posters went wild about this squandered opportunity to get the elusive Zuckerberg on the record. Lacy responded on Twitter with the same level of professionalism she seemed to show on stage. “Seriously screw all you guys,” AdAge quotes her as saying. Ah, youth. The ever-awkward  Zuckerberg and very young Lacy demonstrate that the second Web wave may be as precocious as the first.