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Tech Writers In Denial: The Michael Arrington Case Study (loiclemeur.com)
7 points by petercooper on Sept 13, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I'm sorry, but this doesn't really disprove anything important. All it proves is that Arrington can give fair coverage to companies he has invested in- not that he is obliged to.

There is a potential for abuse here, and just because he hasn't done it before now (perhaps the stakes haven't been high enough?) doesn't mean he wouldn't in the future.

The comments on the post make a great point- Seesmic has 4210 posts written about it, while Tweetdeck has only 2580. Seems a little disproportionate, no? The old "any publicity is good publicity" line might apply here.


tl;dr:

- michael arrington invested $$$ in author's company

- author swears that arrington is totally fair tech writer

- have you read techcrunch? you can't handle the arrington $$$!




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