I agree, the content on techcrunch continues to tend towards random wild opinion instead of tech startup coverage. From Arrington's summer of hate for twitter, to the current sky is falling, its becoming impossible to stay interested.
It's in danger of coming out of my Google Reader, I've already got plenty of other sources for startup and tech news in there and I'd rather read the personal blogs of people with interesting opinions than the mass-produced tripe being churned out by TechCrunch at present. TC is wearing out my "J" button and I can't afford another. There's a credit crunch on, you know.
I actually just removed it from my Google Reader a few hours ago. Got sick of filtering out all the noise and figured all the good stuff will float to the front page of HN anyways.
Oh like this story you mean? Thanks for bringing this to HN btw.