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by joshes
5471 days ago
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tl;dr: Arrington discusses how he (and others who break news) usually first contact the subject of a news piece before publishing the story in order to inform them, get their side, or whatever else. Arrington says he apologized to the CEO of AdMeld for not doing that earlier this month. He then says that some CEOs he just does not trust, however, and will thus forgo the call. He then mentions Caterina Fake (of Hunch) as an example and proceeds to detail how he had the scoop on her departure from Hunch but refused to post it without contacting her first because of their pre-existing relationship. He then mentions that on two separate occasions he tried to warn Caterina of an impending news story only for her to then blog about the story herself and out-scoop him. He then calls her a liar about the entire affair and says he still will not explain what really happened because it's not his business. But then says that with Caterina, and others that he no longer trusts, he will break news stories on them without warning. Edit: Initially mistakenly worded the part about the CEO of AdMeld. Corrected with thanks to the comment below pointing out the mistake. |
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