The AOL-TechCrunch Investing Controversy - Kara Swisher

After a long and interesting rant about Michael Arrington’s transcendent ethics (21st century, or zero ethics, depending on your view), Kara Swisher sums it up this way:

it’s pointless to give a turtle a hard time for not being a fish.

The skinny is that Arrington recently decided to up his level of personal investing in companies he reviews, and Swisher thinks that’s ‘icky’ even though he discloses it. And since Huffington recently sacked an editor for a breach of ethics, what the hell is going on? AOL has announced that no one but Arrington can do this, but he is grandfathered.

It’s a mess, and I am another who wonders how long Arrington will be an AOL employee.

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frakkk said: I know the TC EU guy personally, and it’s a completely different story over here, which is disappointing in the sense that it’s parent is setting a bad example for journalism and the general start-up community.
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