Can Apple’s Steve Jobs Get Privacy with His Health Issues?

Business.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:53:33 +0000

Following his announcement last week that he was resigning as CEO of Apple and passing along the duties to right-hand man Tim Cook, Steve Jobs may have hoped he’d be able to become an afterthought in the minds of many observers. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Jobs, who went public a while back that he had been battling pancreatic cancer, showed up on the celebrity Web site TMZ in two photos looking gaunt, pale and sickly.

So, the big question is whether or not the photos are authentic or if they were doctored?

According to TMZ officials, the picture was snapped last Friday by Pacific Coast News (who reportedly sold it exclusively to the celebrity site), some 48 hours after Jobs announced he was stepping down at Apple, stating he had reached that point and time where he could no longer give 100 percent to his position.

An email from a representative at Pacific Coast News that went out to different media outlets claims, “These have not been doctored in anyway, I can assure you, regardless what you may have read online.”

Jobs had prior surgery to remove a tumor after being diagnosed with a rare type of pancreatic cancer eight years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009 in a further effort to prevent the spread of the disease.

While Jobs had the presence of mind to go public with his cancer battle, was he prepared for the rampant speculation that his battle may not be over and that in fact is what led him to turn over the CEO position to Cook?

Whether or not that is the case, readers of TMZ did not waste time in commenting on the reported photos.

“Leave Steve alone @TMZ. You guys are low as you can go. This is what’s called ‘journalism’ these days. Seriously disgusted,” brian-tong tweeted.

Some skeptics of the photos note that one can tell they were doctored due to warping and repasting. The photo also appears to show another man helping Jobs stand up as he looks off in the distance. Again, do we have the real thing or a fake?

Either way, this incident just goes to show you that the life of a celebrity, be they an athlete, politician or a business icon, will play itself out in the media rightly or wrongly.

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