However, given the fact that a good chunk of the post seems to be a rant about TC itself, I think it's worth pointing out who this is coming from. I've known Loren since the day I started at TechCrunch and think he's a funny, smart guy. But he's also spent a lot of time in the last few months ripping incessantly on TechCrunch.
That's sort of his thing — he's been ripping on Scoble and Dave Winer for years, but I suspect he gets a bit more attention when he does the TechCrunch bashing simply because there are quite a few people out there who love to hate TC. You can get a sense of this by looking through the archives of twitter.com/1938media. Maybe he's really had some epiphany about TC being evil after being friendly with us for years, maybe he's bitter about Michael failing to attend his conference, or maybe he's just doing his schtick.