It's more to do with the fact that the intern is selling coverage for his own personal gain--Techcrunch the entity gets nothing. I see nothing wrong with exclu

It's more to do with the fact that the intern is selling coverage for his own personal gain--Techcrunch the entity gets nothing. I see nothing wrong with exclusives. This happens regularly in business not just in news. For Techcrunch, it's simply an optimization and they are likely to not sell their news space for otherwise non-newsworthy items anyway.