Ruth Davis Konigsberg

The Steve Jobs Backlash Begins

We built him up and now we tear him down

Konigsberg's first book is The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss.

* The New York Times decides a respectable amount of time has elapsed since his death and publishes not one but two Steve Jobs satires by Nora Ephron and novelist James Collins.

* Jobs acolytes feel left out of yesterday’s extremely private and celebrity-filled memorial service at Stanford.

* Meanwhile, medical blogs continue to debate Harvard Medical School researcher Dr. Ramzi Amri’s suggestion that Steve Jobs killed himself by using alternative medicine to treat his pancreatic cancer.

Konigsberg is senior editor at TIME and editor of TIME Ideas. The views expressed are solely her own.
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