IMHO, Techcrunch's coverage of the Tech scene is not significantly worse comparing with the Tech coverage of mainstream media. TC is able to break stories, cont

IMHO, Techcrunch's coverage of the Tech scene is not significantly worse comparing with the Tech coverage of mainstream media. TC is able to break stories, contact sources, etc. Sometimes their integrity is questionable, but I wouldn't say mainstream media are always kosher in this respect, either. But what TC doesn't get is, that they were successful only in covering the relative small niche of the companies and products related to the Internet. But they didn't prove yet that they could make such breakthrough in general news coverage - nor any other blogger did, even HuffPost is dependent on mainstream media coverage which they build upon. We are yet to see a "lean" media company consisting of bloggers, who are able to consistently do some heavy reporting like government corruption, war in some African country or life in totalitarian countries, for example. I am curious to see how they will support themselves financially and compete with MSM.