How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by iamdave on Monday April 26, 2010 @07:23PM (#1296590)

Michael Arrington suffers from the worst possible case of selective memory imaginable. It wasn't that long ago that TC was involved in their own scandal when they gave a kid a Macbook pro in exchange for an article that at least three quarters of the tech community debunked as fud.

Then this happens, and he actually grandstands and says "I would never have done that", and tries to tell us he'd actually be an ethical reporter?

And the Oscar goes to...

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Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by rpledge on Monday April 26, 2010 @07:27PM (#1296595)

To be fair the kid asked for the laptop without Arringtons knowledge. They fired the offending employee and removed all his material from Techcrunch. They were very transparent about the whole incident

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Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by iamdave on Monday April 26, 2010 @07:28PM (#1296599)

Thank you for the clarification on this. I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.

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Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by jrockway on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:14PM (#1296697)

this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit

Whoa, TechCrunch is a blog?

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Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by bdr on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:22PM (#1296725)

You're putting us all down. Blogging is no more inherently self-important than speaking at all.

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Re:How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story by jrockway on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:31PM (#1296738)

I find blogs to be more self-aggrandizing than traditional opinion columns. But indeed, I agree that it is unfair to pin general human traits on blogs.

Oh, and if I sound like I'm on a high horse... I would do the same thing that Arringtion does, if only somebody cared what I thought about anything ;)

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