[ilamont]

This is absolute B.S. I work for an online tech pub (The Industry Standard), and we have also attended YC events and reported on YC startups. There was never any restrictions on the timing of our reports other than what individual YC-funded entrepreneurs (not YC!) requested.

I believe that PG and JL have enough on their plates without having to micromanage press coverage to give Techcrunch this sort of edge -- they seem to be much more interested in simply introducing press to founders, and letting the two parties take it from there.