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I’m So Ashamed Of TechCrunch Today

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"I’m so ashamed. This would have never happened in the old days."

Says the man who traded the dignity of the company he founded for $25 million dollars.

Is it not possible he thought he was leaving it in good hands while he moved on to new things?

He is allegedly one of the most savvy people in the tech industry, the idea that selling his company to AOL had completely unpredictable results is, frankly, patently ridiculous.

He left a good team behind him and was given reassurances, etc. It can't be entirely bad (at least not for him) since he's been able to go back.

That's funny, I thought he traded ownership for $25 million. Isn't it AOL and not Arrington who benefits from the relationship with Tapjoy? (...and I'm not sure TC ever had any dignity)

Fine, correction: he traded away control over the dignity of techcrunch...

I'm surprised that they still publish what he writes on TechCrunch. It's an odd relationship.

As long as he avoids going on an all out jihad then it just creates low-level drama which merely increases traffic, which is what they want. Techcrunch is a tabloid.

Yeah, can anyone explain why this prick is still writing on TechCrunch? Wasn't he booted out at some point?

Arrington and MG Siegler returned in October.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/getting-the-band-back-toget...

I found that somewhat interesting since as far as I know Michael hasn't given up being an investor.

I was surprised the other day by this tweet from a TC editor signaling which PR firms are favored if you want to get your stories published.

https://twitter.com/alexia/status/279307448479776768

I honestly think PRWeb is a more trustworthy source of industry news than TC.

I remember being shocked by pg's post on this. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Also, on the subject of news sites with no credibility, most of Forbes's online content is from "contributors" (pretty much anyone) who don't really have any oversight. So if you see something there, think of it like someone's blog.

Those aren't PR firms, they're individual PR people at specific firms (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

Is this really front page worthy? When will people stop up-voting arrington/techcrunch psychodrama?

Just today? Talk about linkbait.

I thought their article on the NRA was pretty poorly done too today: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/the-nra-blames-video-games-...

Among many issues I had with the article, they link to a guy making a joke tweet saying: "Sorry guys, but I just played Mortal Kombat and I've already ripped out two hearts, harpooned somebody, and turned a ninja into a baby." I always found those kinds of tweets in very poor taste after a little girl was killed by two teens imitating mortal kombat.

Lines like "Maybe more guns would help, maybe they wouldn’t. But, the NRA wasn’t exactly a pillar of thoughtfulness today." don't exactly make for great journalism either.

I don't understand why this is published on Techcrunch. Maybe I don't understand the Arrington relationship though.

I believe the relationship is drama->pageviews->revenue.

If they can just switch the design back to the old, I would start reading again. They can take the design back from tcfast.com

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