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TechCrunch has always been a rag publication. They do good articles like their recent piece on the SF rent, but the amount of useful signals are flooded by the
by thrillgore 13y ago
TechCrunch has always been a rag publication. They do good articles like their recent piece on the SF rent, but the amount of useful signals are flooded by the low effort noise.
- gchokov 13y agoAbsolutely. They start to look like a mass-media, trying to generate hypes and sensations, which pretty often are done in a very cheap way. And once you start and point out this in the comments below the article, they say "you don't get the irony". Okay, thank you smarts.
- fixermark 13y agoUnfortunately. TechCrunch is one of the very few media outlets that I can say I've put in my mental spamfilter. They flipped my bozo bit years ago due to the number of times their reporting on situations I'm close to has deviated breathlessly from the on-the-ground reality of the situation. I actually read and enjoyed their recent article on San Francisco housing... But the responsible thing for me to do next is to follow up via alternate information sources if I want to know more, because I can't trust TC to relay the facts without narrative distortion. They are very good storytellers who allow the crafted narrative to outstrip the reality too often for my taste.
- minimaxir 13y agoThe TechCrunch of today is a lot different than the TechCrunch of years ago, due to the editorial shakeups.