TechCrunch’s Yertle the Turtle Tantrum Over News Embargoes
Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe-this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes.
Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously faked Wrestlemania bout with French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur about the lazy-lunching Europeans, he moved on to a more promising, but ultimately meaningless riff on PR people versus journalists over embargo-breaking.
It’s a surefire hit, given tech PR people and bloggers obsessively monitor Techmeme.
(What next for the Geraldo Rivera of investigative tech blogging? A withering prosecution of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang in the HOV lane on Highway 101 in Sunnyvale without a hybrid? Quel scandale!)
But BoomTown is not going to do a thumbsucker response to TechCrunch’s news embargo jihad, because, well, who really cares about the details of PR-media interaction anyway (except those who take themselves way too seriously)?
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