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Leo: "My opinions are my own and have never been influenced by any vendor at any time" Arrington will never say that for most of his content is pay-per-post. L

Leo: "My opinions are my own and have never been influenced by any vendor at any time" Arrington will never say that for most of his content is pay-per-post. Like a giant billlboard, you pay Arrington for what you want the tech world to see. And he receives a lot, and I mean lots and lots of money from microsoft, facebook and twitter.

froo 17y ago
I think Michael talks about Twitter because he genuinely loves the service. What about all of the posts he did last year when the service kept going down? Do you think all of that negativity was paid for by Twitter too?
- axod 17y ago
  That 'negativity' helped twitter. It would have hurt them if TechCrunch had just ignored them and not mentioned twitter. But they kept on and on and on relentlessly about it.
  - access_denied 17y ago
    There's no bad publicity.
    - froo 17y ago
      That's a complete fallacy, there is such a thing as bad publicity... either that, or the whole ribbing that mega-corporation Mcdonald's took from Spurlock's "Supersize Me" was imaginary.
anamax 17y ago
> And [Arrington] receives a lot, and I mean lots and lots of money from microsoft, facebook and twitter. And you know this how? (I'm not suggesting that you don't. I'm asking how you verified this information.)
- trapper 17y ago
  Well its pretty obvious why he thinks that. Look at techcrunch.com and you'll see a big banner costing what, 100k/month(?) filled with microsoft and twitter. However, I don't see it as a conflict of interest. He bases MS and twitter as much as anyone.
olefoo 17y ago
That's a fairly sharp claim. Do you have any evidence to back it up? If it's really that common there should be plenty of evidence laying around. People who've been approached to pay to play, email archives, chat logs, payments. It shouldn't be that hard for someone to come up with something that shows that it's going on. And if someone wanted to earn their muckraking journalism merit badge that would be a very meaty story indeed. I doubt you'll find anything that obvious, not that Arrington is some sort of paragon of virtue; but my impression is that he's smart enough not to do dumb things like that; and that his main motivation has more to do with being a kingmaker than making money off of his blog.
swombat 17y ago
most of his content is pay-per-post Funny that people like you call Mike Arrington a troll.

froo 17y ago

I think Michael talks about Twitter because he genuinely loves the service. What about all of the posts he did last year when the service kept going down? Do you think all of that negativity was paid for by Twitter too?

axod 17y ago
That 'negativity' helped twitter. It would have hurt them if TechCrunch had just ignored them and not mentioned twitter. But they kept on and on and on relentlessly about it.
- access_denied 17y ago
  There's no bad publicity.
  - froo 17y ago
    That's a complete fallacy, there is such a thing as bad publicity... either that, or the whole ribbing that mega-corporation Mcdonald's took from Spurlock's "Supersize Me" was imaginary.

anamax 17y ago

> And [Arrington] receives a lot, and I mean lots and lots of money from microsoft, facebook and twitter. And you know this how? (I'm not suggesting that you don't. I'm asking how you verified this information.)

trapper 17y ago
Well its pretty obvious why he thinks that. Look at techcrunch.com and you'll see a big banner costing what, 100k/month(?) filled with microsoft and twitter. However, I don't see it as a conflict of interest. He bases MS and twitter as much as anyone.

olefoo 17y ago

That's a fairly sharp claim. Do you have any evidence to back it up? If it's really that common there should be plenty of evidence laying around. People who've been approached to pay to play, email archives, chat logs, payments. It shouldn't be that hard for someone to come up with something that shows that it's going on. And if someone wanted to earn their muckraking journalism merit badge that would be a very meaty story indeed. I doubt you'll find anything that obvious, not that Arrington is some sort of paragon of virtue; but my impression is that he's smart enough not to do dumb things like that; and that his main motivation has more to do with being a kingmaker than making money off of his blog.

swombat 17y ago

most of his content is pay-per-post Funny that people like you call Mike Arrington a troll.