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		pavs on July 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Google App Inventor A Gateway Drug Or A Doomsda... Is Techcrunch a sensationalist tabloid or last bastion of quality journalism?

commandar on July 12, 2010 | [–]

Techcrunch is Gawker for people interested in startups.

Incidentally, this quote from Nick Denton applies to TC as much as it does Gawker:

“We don’t seek to do good. We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention.”

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/07/with-ad-revenue-up-35-gawke...

rbanffy on July 12, 2010 | [–]

Yes

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