Hey Jon Stewart, hyperbolic headlines aren’t the only thing wrong with blogging

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart took an unlikely shot at blogs last week. Exaggerated headlines really are a problem. It misleads the people who treat news like window shopping. Gloss over some of these headlines, and you’d think everybody hates everybody else, and the world is ending at 6 o’clock.

While misdirection through exaggeration is one problem, misdirection through rumors and half-truths is just as frightening — if not more so. Keep fighting the sensationalists, Stewart, and we’ll keep prodding the rumor mongers.

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TechCrunch successfully guesses at Google Super Bowl commercial

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

Google did indeed have a commercial in the Super Bowl. TechCrunch guessed there would be one based on a fairly vague tweet from Google CEO Eric Schmidt., as we noted in our post about the Google Super Bowl commercial. Continue reading →

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A Crunchy Google Super Bowl rumor

Posted on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment

Maybe we should just call this the Is TechCrunch Full of Shit Blog.

In a characteristic jumping to conclusions, MG Siegler somehow lands on the assumption that Google will have a Super Bowl commercial maybe about the Nexus One. Continue reading →

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Ring, ring! Windows Phone 7 rumors attributed to absolutely no one

Posted on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment

It’s weekend bullshit edition. While most Americans lounge around, recover from hangovers and make last-minute Super Bowl plans, the gadget bloggers are mixing away on a new batch of chocolate chip hearsay.

First, some site called PPC Geeks sprays this insanely detailed load about a new phone from Microsoft running an updated operating system called Windows Phone 7. Blogger MightyMike (I’m not even making that up; go look) lists a bunch of the device’s features that have supposedly leaked in advance of an unveiling at the Mobile World Congress in a couple weeks. Continue reading →

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Facebook maybe launching e-mail client some time, says ‘source with knowledge’

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

Less than 24 hours after Michael Arrington‘s TechCrunch had to come clean on laptop bribery to protect his blog’s journalistic integrity, the founder drops a sourceless prediction about the world’s largest social network.

Facebook is planning to launch a “fully featured webmail product” to replace that crappy inbox feature we only use out of pure necessity, Arrington writes. He attributes that eye-catching headline to “a source with knowledge of the product.” Continue reading →

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AP stance on anonymous sources

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’re just throwing this out there.

Under AP’s rules, material from anonymous sources may be used only if:

1. The material is information and not opinion or speculation, and is vital to the news report.

2. The information is not available except under the conditions of anonymity imposed by the source.

3. The source is reliable, and in a position to have accurate information.

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TechCrunch fires intern who allegedly solicited laptops for press

Posted on February 5, 2010 | 3 Comments

Seventeen-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky was publicly humiliated for allegedly cheating on his math test soliciting and accepting expensive gifts in exchange for press on a major online publication.

During his nine-month tenure as TechCrunch intern, Brusilovsky, who Valleywag hailed as the tech boy wonder, supposedly asked for laptops in exchange for writing about certain Web start-ups. (His mea culpa.) Continue reading →

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