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I'm all for scrutinizing the recent intern situation at TechCrunch (unfortunately I can't really talk about it, other than to say it makes me feel sick to my st

I'm all for scrutinizing the recent intern situation at TechCrunch (unfortunately I can't really talk about it, other than to say it makes me feel sick to my stomach). However, given the fact that a good chunk of the post seems to be a rant about TC itself, I think it's worth pointing out who this is coming from. I've known Loren since the day I started at TechCrunch and think he's a funny, smart guy. But he's also spent a lot of time in the last few months ripping incessantly on TechCrunch. That's sort of his thing — he's been ripping on Scoble and Dave Winer for years, but I suspect he gets a bit more attention when he does the TechCrunch bashing simply because there are quite a few people out there who love to hate TC. You can get a sense of this by looking through the archives of twitter.com/1938media. Maybe he's really had some epiphany about TC being evil after being friendly with us for years, maybe he's bitter about Michael failing to attend his conference, or maybe he's just doing his schtick.

ojbyrne 17y ago
He wasn't an intern. That was spin.
TomOfTTB 17y ago
However, given the fact that a good chunk of the post seems to be a rant about TC itself, I think it's worth pointing out who this is coming from. It really isn't. In fact, "pointing out who this is coming from" is just a way of trying to discredit someone without actually addressing what they said. In the end knowing who a person is can be used as a basis for choosing what to read but once you're actually reading the piece it doesn't really matter who is writing it or what their bias is unless they are misrepresenting the facts. If that's what he's doing you should point out what facts he's misrepresenting and not try to attack his character.