Flagged -- HN can do better than this. That was a terrible article, and does more to damage VentureBeat's credibility than anything else. Here is an excerpt fro

Flagged -- HN can do better than this. That was a terrible article, and does more to damage VentureBeat's credibility than anything else. Here is an excerpt from the now-deleted article: "Of course, we have no proof whether TechCrunch was really part of this sort of deal-making. But at least, according to one reading, this start-up thinks that’s the way things work in Silicon Valley." Translation: in email correspondence they had with a founder, they figured out shoehorn into what he said the idea that he thought he could trade favors for TC coverage. They then wrote up a story slamming this founder and TC, apparently before talking to anybody. I don't work in the media, but it feels like a serious breach of trust to write an article indicting someone over a flimsy interpretation of something they say to you in a private email.