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If TechCrunch had altered their published opinion because they were pressured by their parent company or their subject, then yes, you could take that informatio
by jfager 16y ago
If TechCrunch had altered their published opinion because they were pressured by their parent company or their subject, then yes, you could take that information and infer they compromised their journalistic integrity.
But that doesn't imply that you can take an instance of them not altering their opinion in the face of pressure and infer that they have integrity, because it's possible that they could do the exact same thing out of pure self-interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
- bgentry 16y agoEven though this one release may not be representative of the company as a whole, at least it gives us some reason to believe in TechCrunch's journalistic integrity. I didn't mean to imply that this was a total affirmation of TechCrunch's journalistic integrity, only that this was a sign that they may have some of it.
- kenjackson 16y agoThe problem is their actual articles tend to lead one to believe the contrary. The only way TechCrunch seems to have any whiff of integrity is when they do an article that is explicitly about them showing off their integrity.