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This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ev

This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.

SodMerkin 15y ago
Oh get off the high horse and allow those of us who are enjoying this soap opera to indulge in some "abhorrently unimportant drama". You have no guilty pleasures?
- jarek 15y ago
  I don't know about you but I don't post my guilty pleasures on Hacker News
  - zackattack 15y ago
    Hacker News is my biggest guilty pleasure. I know what I should be doing ... but I like to feel involved in a community, so I post here. Picking up little bits of information is a bonus.
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nl 15y ago
I don't get the vitriolic hate that TechCrunch gets on HN. Sure, it can be trashy at times but it plays a very useful role in the Startp ecosystem. If it didn't exist then either Startups would get a lot less attention or some other publication would fill its place. I think startups getting less attention is - on the balance - a bad thing. If a publication other than TC was publication-of-record then it is difficult to say if it would be better or worse. Arrington did a media startup, cashed out and was going to run a VC fund. What's wrong with that?
- diogenescynic 15y ago
  >Arrington did a media startup, cashed out and was going to run a VC fund. What's wrong with that? The details in between are what matter. I think most people are just put off by his constant need to interject himself into the stories.
  - nl 15y ago
    Can you relate some examples that you found off putting? I thought - for example - the whole CrunchPad thing was quite interesting. It was an interesting product, and the posts gave a lot of insight into how hardware businesses worked.
    - jarek 15y ago
      What did you make of the Last.fm story?
      - nl 15y ago
        They published a story they got from a source, which turned out to be (mostly) wrong. References: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-over-user-listening-data-to-the-riaa/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-ov... http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ I don't see how that is Arrington's "need to interject himself into the stories"
        jarek 15y ago
        I found their reporting of the story very off-putting. To be more precise, it was a hatchet job.
    - diogenescynic 15y ago
      The CrunchPad, 'Angle-gate', all of his squabbling with Calancanis, fighting with Josh Topolsky. He is a diva and doesn't deserve the attention he gets.
wisty 15y ago
TC was one of the few rags which seemed to care, at all, about the financials of tech companies - whether they could actually turn a profit.

SodMerkin 15y ago

Oh get off the high horse and allow those of us who are enjoying this soap opera to indulge in some "abhorrently unimportant drama". You have no guilty pleasures?

jarek 15y ago
I don't know about you but I don't post my guilty pleasures on Hacker News
- zackattack 15y ago
  Hacker News is my biggest guilty pleasure. I know what I should be doing ... but I like to feel involved in a community, so I post here. Picking up little bits of information is a bonus.
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nl 15y ago

I don't get the vitriolic hate that TechCrunch gets on HN. Sure, it can be trashy at times but it plays a very useful role in the Startp ecosystem. If it didn't exist then either Startups would get a lot less attention or some other publication would fill its place. I think startups getting less attention is - on the balance - a bad thing. If a publication other than TC was publication-of-record then it is difficult to say if it would be better or worse. Arrington did a media startup, cashed out and was going to run a VC fund. What's wrong with that?

diogenescynic 15y ago
>Arrington did a media startup, cashed out and was going to run a VC fund. What's wrong with that? The details in between are what matter. I think most people are just put off by his constant need to interject himself into the stories.
- nl 15y ago
  Can you relate some examples that you found off putting? I thought - for example - the whole CrunchPad thing was quite interesting. It was an interesting product, and the posts gave a lot of insight into how hardware businesses worked.
  - jarek 15y ago
    What did you make of the Last.fm story?
    - nl 15y ago
      They published a story they got from a source, which turned out to be (mostly) wrong. References: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-over-user-listening-data-to-the-riaa/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-ov... http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ I don't see how that is Arrington's "need to interject himself into the stories"
      - jarek 15y ago
        I found their reporting of the story very off-putting. To be more precise, it was a hatchet job.
  - diogenescynic 15y ago
    The CrunchPad, 'Angle-gate', all of his squabbling with Calancanis, fighting with Josh Topolsky. He is a diva and doesn't deserve the attention he gets.

wisty 15y ago

TC was one of the few rags which seemed to care, at all, about the financials of tech companies - whether they could actually turn a profit.