Re:What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC
by gruseom on Saturday August 22, 2009 @06:43PM
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I stopped being OK with TechCrunch when they went after Blaine Cook personally for Twitter's reliability issues.
I'd forgotten about that. You're right, that was awful.
Edit: I like pop songs. At least Bleach had one.
Edit 2: Did you know that the WSJ is Noam Chomsky's favorite newspaper?
Re:What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC
by apu on Monday August 24, 2009 @05:22PM
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Do you have a source for WSJ being Chomsky's favorite newspaper?
And I don't know if there's that much difference between them and the Times (except Editorials, of course) anymore. Both have very few real "reporters" who do even the basics of journalism, such as checking facts and assertions for correctness and not just "he said, she said"...
I stopped being OK with TechCrunch when they went after Blaine Cook personally for Twitter's reliability issues.
I can point out lots of random incidents that have caused me to write off TechCrunch (Last.fm being the most prominent). But those are just symptoms. The disease is replacing the profession of journalism with clowns like Arrington. The pathology that results is "publications" with:
* No sourcing policies
* No retraction policies
* No conflict of interest controls
* No separation between editorial and reporting
You're better off with a Murdoch paper than with TechCrunch. At least the WSJ does great reporting outside the editorial pages. Here you're disputing whether there's a non-knee-jerk reason to dislike TechCrunch, over a story in which Arrington uses anonymous sources to assert that Apple is acting quasi-unlawfully, in part over behavior that Arrington simply doesn't like. You couldn't get this published in a column in a mainstream paper.