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This may be the closest thing to journalism TechCrunch has done since AOL took over. It's definitely the first time AOL has impressed me since giving me 30 hou
by benologist 13y ago
This may be the closest thing to journalism TechCrunch has done since AOL took over. It's definitely the first time AOL has impressed me since giving me 30 hours free internet ~16 years ago.
Edit: I hope they have the stones to do a follow-up about the JustFab articles vanishing from HN.
- josh2600 13y agoI <3 TechCrunch, but it's true that HackerNews did the Journalism here. Maybe they deserve credit for this scoop, but I don't think so, IMHO of course. I think AOL impressed me by buying TechCrunch, BTW, and that wasn't 16 years ago.
- chasing 13y agoReally? Because it looks like they just picked the best comments from the Hacker News thread on the matter and just stuck them together.
- benologist 13y agoThey took a shot at a VC darling, signed up with and without VIP subscriptions, and went through the cancelation process, and didn't sugar coat what JustFab are doing and why they're evil. That's a lot from a company whose specialty is monitoring RSS feeds, HN, and favored companies' press releases for stuff to reword.
- bsullivan01 13y agoThis may be the closest thing to journalism TechCrunch has done since AOL took over. Ummm, they had the chance to investigate on their own and declined to. HN did the heavy work and TechCrunch couldn't ignore the direction their story took https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 . (from "JustFab raises lots of money" into "they are a scam company")"