Startup shills. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't perform any journalism, or that they don't aspire to be journalists, but the news they've chosen to co

Startup shills. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't perform any journalism, or that they don't aspire to be journalists, but the news they've chosen to coverage depends highly on their sources choosing them as the primary outlet for news. That used to make sense, but not anymore, and especially not since 1) Big Media have taken tech coverage seriously, 2) FAR superior sites like Ars & The Verge provide much better general technical cover for the same or similar things, and 3) there are a plethora of niche blogs/sites that delve deeper still into the minutiae of nearly anything you could imagine (consider android police, androinica, phandroid, android guys, android atlas, andcentral, ...). Imho, TC isn't the only one suffering -- Mashable, Pandodaily, etc aren't exactly getting the new hotness first, either.