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Right. This person seems to have some serious issues and needs to get help. Any legal issues (fraud) should be dealt with by authorities and I'm not sure ther

Right. This person seems to have some serious issues and needs to get help. Any legal issues (fraud) should be dealt with by authorities and I'm not sure there's much benefit in creating a circus around a young person making mistakes, and possibly committing credit card fraud. But it does seem clearer now why TechCrunch seems to have taken it all so personally. Sounds like they were among those fooled. It really should have been mentioned in the original article that she lived with a TechCruncher. Would have made the personal animosity more transparent. They're obviously embarrassed and lashing out. However you only have yourself to blame when you fall for easily-fact-checkable lies. If any group has the collective rolodex to make a couple of calls and authenticate the veracity of such claims it's TC.

rhizome 14y ago
Would have made the personal animosity more transparent. Consider the source.
- richardjordan 14y ago
  Indeed. But I've ranted elsewhere at my distress as someone who's been in Silicon Valley for more than a decade now, at the deteriorating state of industry media coverage and its descent in certain quarters towards soap opera status. Too many posts where the journalists make themselves the story, too much loss of objectivity. People say "well Arrington did it", but I don't think he did. He was genuinely well connected from a long time in the valley. He was genuinely a trusted source. So his posts had insight and were very well written. Not right 100% of the time, in the opinions of many, I'm sure, but who is? The gossipy nature is distressing. The Twitter squabbles between rival publications are often childish and unnecessary. But there are folks out there trying to build quality alternatives and I have no doubt that things will get better for industry coverage. That in itself may push TC back to quality - let's face it they still run great events and have a loud megaphone in the industry. Swapping that for TMZ-style pageview grasps sounds like an inferior business strategy for the long haul.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    At least since the acquisition I've been saying that TC is (or had become) the TMZ of tech. There is nothing inherently valuable about their coverage, especially these days, and their position as vaunted tech journalists seems to me to be a case of a cultural Sunk-Cost Fallacy, Status Quo, or however you view the hope that past returns are an indicator of future performance.

rhizome 14y ago

Would have made the personal animosity more transparent. Consider the source.

richardjordan 14y ago
Indeed. But I've ranted elsewhere at my distress as someone who's been in Silicon Valley for more than a decade now, at the deteriorating state of industry media coverage and its descent in certain quarters towards soap opera status. Too many posts where the journalists make themselves the story, too much loss of objectivity. People say "well Arrington did it", but I don't think he did. He was genuinely well connected from a long time in the valley. He was genuinely a trusted source. So his posts had insight and were very well written. Not right 100% of the time, in the opinions of many, I'm sure, but who is? The gossipy nature is distressing. The Twitter squabbles between rival publications are often childish and unnecessary. But there are folks out there trying to build quality alternatives and I have no doubt that things will get better for industry coverage. That in itself may push TC back to quality - let's face it they still run great events and have a loud megaphone in the industry. Swapping that for TMZ-style pageview grasps sounds like an inferior business strategy for the long haul.
- rhizome 14y ago
  At least since the acquisition I've been saying that TC is (or had become) the TMZ of tech. There is nothing inherently valuable about their coverage, especially these days, and their position as vaunted tech journalists seems to me to be a case of a cultural Sunk-Cost Fallacy, Status Quo, or however you view the hope that past returns are an indicator of future performance.