Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster complains that newspapers, who used to fawn over the 12-year-old bare-bones classifieds site, now bend over backward to trash it — and that the negative tone of those articles is being handed down by spurned execs who blame Craig Newmark for stealing their ad revenue.
Normally, we’d say it was a stupid move to criticize the media you accuse of criticizing you; that’s just baiting ‘em. But then again, it worked for Hillary Clinton. Finally.