Hasta La Gadget!

CNBC looked like an angry version of The Brady Bunch the other night, with five talking heads in boxes berating one another. The source of the contention? Was it the economic collapse or the situation in Gaza? Nope. It was the state of Apple head Steve Jobs’ health.

One of said angry heads was Newsweek’s Dan Lyons–that’s the former Fake Steve Jobs to you. His frustrated assessment that CNBC’s Jim Goldman was “punked” by PR reps at Apple (at around the 3:30 minute mark in the accompanying video) was enough to get the writer banned for life from the financial network.

Lyons, for his part, was echoing industry sentiments about the Apple PR team’s control over the world of tech journalism, suggesting that Goldman and others didn’t report on earlier claims of Jobs’ health so as to not upset the company.