After being on this site for 5 years, I am still surprised to not see a blacklist solely for techcrunch submissions.

> After being on this site for 5 years, I am still surprised to not see a blacklist solely for techcrunch submissions.

This particular article is from Uncrunched, not Techcrunch.

I wish this could happen, if only so their stupid splash screen stops breaking my iPad. I doubt it will ever happen though, YC and techcrunch seem to enjoy a very symbiotic relationship

They should disclose it. It's clearly there, every YC company gets a TechCrunch splash, and assuming Mike was involved in setting up such an arrangement, then Mike is looking after both his past and future interests.

Read like that, Mike's post is then clearly just a little bit of politics. It's not turning the drama down, it's looking after someone that looked after him at some point and may do in future.

Viewed from outside the valley, whenever I see stuff like this I wish we had journalistic standards rather than blogger opinions. Declare your interests, state any arrangements you've got in place. Then I'll read the opinion without feeling I am being duped. Without that you just get noise chambers.

I upvote this. Let's make it happen.

When I read "Mike Arrington" and "turning down the drama", I thought this must certainly be The Onion.

Haha, you just reminded me the classic "So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar..." http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-b...

You read my mind.

so instead of addressing the points you talk about drama?

and <i>he</i> is the one to blame?