March 28, 2011
The rumor, reported by the New York Times, that Robert Gibbs is in negotiations to join Facebook in a “senior role” to help “manage the company’s communications,” leads me to this thought: Who better to manage communications for a global company that rarely answers a direct question about its management than the former spokesman for a White House that rarely answered a direct question about its management? One wishes Facebook wasn’t so interested in such a conventional choice…