"there's no better team reporting on tech these days. They've really come into their own over the last couple of years and are producing high quality articles and videos at scale and driving conversations forward that are important to all of us."
TechCrunch is really awesome. Top-notch tech journalism of the highest caliber.
Most definitely. I admire their commitment to not stooping to link-baiting or blowing simple things out of proportion in order to manufacture drama and garner page views.
>TechCrunch is really awesome. Top-notch tech journalism of the highest caliber.
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Ok, hold on one second there mister. Ill give you that TC is very well connected - but I don't know if you've read any of the articles/listened to Paul Karr's ego any time recently -- but I have yet to see any TC posts without spelling/grammar/editing errors.
Sure, they have a sweet spot between people actually building stuff and those who read about it... but until their own staff proof-read their own pieces... lets hold off on the journalistic praise of any caliber.
Part yes, but the poster said that Techcrunch was worthless because of the copyediting mistakes. That's not "part of", that's is.
There's a related idea which says that journalism is good stories and copy editing.
Both are wrong. Good storytelling and copy editing are part of good journalism, but they're not the whole story. In fact, they're not even the majority of the story, even though they're dominant skills of most journalists.
Ha! So your solution to my pointing out their errors in their pieces is that I shouldn't read it???
MA: "Hi I am Michael Arrington, I built and sold TechCrunch to AOL for $25 million dollars. We post articles online about whats going on in Tech, the Valley, etc... check it out!"
Internet: "Cool, hey Mike, I noticed that you guys seem to consistently make spelling and grammatical errors in your articles - they have good content, but is anyone checking them?"
MA: "WHAT! YOU FOOL! If you don't like the articles with all their errors then you SHOULDN'T READ IT!"
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. How about a better argument:
If you're going to call your self journalists and WRITE about technology and trends and the valley and what not AS YOUR JOB why don't YOU check your fucking work before positing it online?
TechCrunch is really awesome. Top-notch tech journalism of the highest caliber.