This post is 11 days old and the ship has already sailed. There's no need to 'hasten the end's arrival' anymore. Arrington is gone, Carr is gone, and we now know just how editorial is going to run over there. Sadly (IMHO).
I was a TC subscriber from not long after its launch and continued to see it as "Michael's blog" (with all the bias and personality that entails) and not the media behemoth it has become. Admittedly, it's like lamenting Wozniak 'leaving' Apple in 1987 ;-)
I would like to keep up on startup news without the bias and the literary slap-fighting that is going on over there. I'd start the site myself but I'm in the midwest so I don't have the access I'd need.
Please, someone make a better TechCrunch and keep the journalistic standards high, please. I'll even pay a nominal fee for a subscription.
That's not necessarily true. I mean, there's no accounting for taste, but the reality is that they were an effective hype machine for startups in a less-connected era, but that ended about the time they started figuring out they could pull a Walter Winchell on the industry and got drunk on their own power. They have been absolutely useless since the Scamville brouhaha, but by my measure their downhill slide and loss of focus started no later than here:
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 21.8 ms ] threadand, just out of curiosity, why do you say sadly? whats your HO?
Please, someone make a better TechCrunch and keep the journalistic standards high, please. I'll even pay a nominal fee for a subscription.
http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitte...
That's how I define crap!