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Can you trust TechCrunch enough to share their stories?
- Dauntless 17y agoI can't believe everyone on TechCrunch can't see the difference between "highest percentage increase in green house gases" and "worst greenhouse gas emitters"... are they that foolish... Of course countries that emitted few greenhouse gases have a higher percentage increase because any slight variation is a big one, while USA who is a mammoth when it comes to greenhouse will logically have small percentage changes because it's already huge (similar with GDP changes, 1% of GDP increase in USA is equivalent with 380% of GDP in Sweden for example and so on... btw, bogus numbers just to exemplify).
- CamperBob 17y agoI was pretty unimpressed when they published stolen Twitter documents after publicly pretending to agonize over the decision. A professional journalist wouldn't have done either of those things.
- jacquesm 17y agosecond that. Techcrunch has been in my zonefile since then pointing to 127.0.0.1 to avoid the temptation.
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- chipmunkninja 17y agoI've increasingly been viewing TechCrunch as the Bill O'Reilly show of the startup scene. The noise-to-signal ratio and tabloidesque sensationalism is too painful for my own personal tastes. However, I know lots of people who find it most useful, but I avoid it like the plague.
- seldo 17y agoI have been experimentally attempting to avoid reading TechCrunch over the last week and discovered I don't miss it. Anything important they cover is covered in more detail elsewhere (usually they're just re-reporting something from the WSJ/NYTimes) and surfaced for me either by Techmeme or Hacker News. All of TechCrunch's original reporting is dross, and often inaccurate. There seems to be this consensus in the tech community that TechCrunch is an industry-shaping dealmaker, but that reputation seems mostly to be coming from TechCrunch itself.
- jkincaid 17y agoI know it's popular to bash TC on here, and I've long since accepted that it comes with the territory, but this is a pretty ridiculous comment. We frequently break news before the WSJ and NYT. Case in point: the Google Voice/Apple/AT&T fiasco. We broke the news that Google had submitted their application six weeks ago and subsequently had it rejected. Until then, everyone was under the impression that Google was still "working on it".
- tortilla 17y agoSure there's some bashing, but there are also valid criticisms here. To me the it's gotten to the point where the cons outweigh the pros. I no longer trust what is written on TC.
- antonovka 17y agoUnfortunately we clearly can't trust even your breaking news -- as evidenced by the referenced article -- until it's validated by a more reputable source.
- dzohrob 17y agoYou value getting it first more than getting it right. That might be aligned with TC's business, but not with the better interest of your readers or the public at large.
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- kyro 17y agoWhat really gets me are Schonfeld's replies to those trying to provide additional information with respects to the accuracy of the article. To tell someone to go petition the UN, etc, is really damn ridiculous. It's childish, lazy, and cheap. Sometimes I find TC authors' comments and replies to 'trolls' to be just as trollish. I'm not a TC bandwaggoner. In fact, I quite like them, and have found the quality of their posts to have increased recently, but little things like this shouldn't happen. Putting in that extra 0.5% of effort to act cordial and double check facts will go a long way.
- 00joe 17y agoStopped reading them months ago, started finding the blogs that are original sources, now I get much better news coverage.
- mbenjaminsmith 17y agoI just had the pleasure of reading another 'oh my gawd, PR people are so stupid' story over at TC. For me that's the journalistic equivalent of Nietzsche's music of decline. That latest Twitter fiasco shows what they're all about. I love that publishing virtually meaningless private data (which was stolen) was somehow an expression of their journalistic integrity. Because we needed to know that Twitter plans on being the pulse of the planet? Come on. They're the tech news equivalent of Cops.
- fredBuddemeyer 17y agowatch for their journalism to turn a brighter shade of yellow now that the crunchpad is competing with the companies they cover. arrington just wrote a vilifying little piece about getting rid of his iPhone in order to go with a dizzying configuration of beta/vapor options from google voice. this story seems particularly huffy and shows the need for conflict of interest disclosure now.
- alain94040 17y agoMy defense of TC: in a world where everyone is too scared to voice a clear opinion, TC will tell it to you straight. When they see torture, they don't say "enhanced interrogation techniques" (http://twitter.com/dangillmor/statuses/933969163 http://twitter.com/dangillmor/statuses/933969163) So many other media outlets will not dare say anything negative about the news they cover.
- extension 17y agoThey don't have the same allegiances as the mainstream media. That doesn't mean they don't have any.
- adrianwaj 17y agoIt's too mainstream for me. 3 million rss subscribers means there's a lot stuff they won't publish because they are trying to please all those subscribers at once, most of the time. I also wonder about its balance: are there sites, categories and companies that are excluded so as not to jeopardise the IN crowd?
- iamwil 17y agohttp://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/01/america-makes-nothin.html http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/01/america-makes-nothin.ht... Seems like Boingboing made the same mistake of mixing up the original function vs the first derivative.