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Title of the article is misleading. The post is about TechCrunch firing an intern for being paid to write a biased article about a company. The issue the autho
by epochwolf 17y ago
Title of the article is misleading. The post is about TechCrunch firing an intern for being paid to write a biased article about a company.
The issue the author has is Tech Crunch didn't single out the company that bribed the intern instead they just pulled all the intern's article leaving 26 companies as possible bribers.
Any credible journalism/news organization will take these measures to protect itself from the damage to it's readership and lawsuits. I don't know if I can agree with the author.
- eli 17y agoI completely disagree. Credible news organizations would certainly name the guilty party and provide whatever evidence they have that something unethical took place. They would also generally investigate each of the past articles by the author to check for problems. See, for example, Wired.com's handling of a reporter who fudged sources: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/05/67428 http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/05/67428 They hired a well-known investigative reporter for the sole purpose of checking the facts in all her past articles.
- ojbyrne 17y agoNot an intern.
- dnsworks 17y agoTechcrunch isn't really credible. And as for not releasing the names of the alleged companies, of course they didn't. Arrington doesn't want to alienate any potential advertisors or suckers^Hsuckers who might be willing to pay $5k to demo at one of his silly press rallies.