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So TechCrunch really isn't a news publication anymore, it's just a company blog now.

• reinhardt 15y ago
  "now" ?
• dhruval 15y ago
  So not really all that different from Hacker News. This type of indirect value capture will tend to happen given the economics of online publishing. Hopefully TC can put in to place a some policies that limit the impact on the publication's objectivity.
  • ajju 15y ago
    Except HN does not publish any articles. So it really is quite different from TechCrunch.
    • kapitalx 15y ago
      However, there is an inherent bias towards YC funded startups. A TC with bias towards Arrington funded startups would be in some weird way comparable.
    • socratic 15y ago
      What would you count as "publishing" articles? I find this an interesting point. In some sense, Hacker News publishes anything that can receive enough upvotes. But in another sense, YC interests are highly supported by the ecosystem. For example, job postings for YC companies are posted like articles but without comments attached, particularly negative articles about YC startups are often (though not always) flagged by an unknown team of editors, and YC stories on TechCrunch are almost always upvoted (and are allowed to have YC in the title, leading to a signaling effect). None of this is to suggest that anyone necessarily has any bad intentions, but rather that stories on HN do seem to be highly curated by people who may have what might be considered traditional conflicts-of-interest.