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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