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Way to go, Michael Arring­ton. What is this, a tabloid? Your process jour­nal­ism expla­na­tion is noth­ing but com­pletely BS and you know it. You’re just lazy and want to be first.

Say you receive stolen doc­u­ments. Do you shred them? Do you write about but not pub­lish them? Do you pub­lish some of them and make it seem altru­is­tic to not pub­lish them all? Yep.

What exactly is TechCrunch? Why are things like this okay?

This also brings into ques­tion the con­cept of the Sug­gested User List, as men­tioned by Robert Scoble. You think the 800k+ fol­low­ers that TechCrunch have will fac­tor into how many of these secrets he pub­lishes? Is it eth­i­cal for a real jour­nal­ist to be granted such favor as the SUL?

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