Michael Arrington is quick to accuse others of co-option by media conglomerates. The prickly
Techcrunch publisher, who can make or break startups with his reviews of web apps, yesterday described the New York Times as
ethically challenged; and berated
Jeff Jarvis and
Rafat Ali, two other writer-entrepreneurs, of fabricating stories about him in order to
suck up to the newspaper. Amusing, particularly because we hear that Arrington was
himself in discussions with a media giant that dwarfs the New York Times.
Ross Levinsohn, the man who bought social network site Myspace for Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation, toyed with the idea of investing in Techcrunch, the company that owns the influential tech news site and Crunchgear, a gadget site that competes with Gawker Media's Gizmodo. Levinsohn, whose reputation within News Corp never matched his image in the press, was never that serious, but he kept Arrington dangling, as long as Fox Interactive's investments continued to receive flattering coverage.
And you wonder why Ross gets these blowjobs, says a Fox Interactive insider.
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