Dan Lyons has a
funny, pointed post covering what I
mentioned earlier, in the context of Path's privacy violations:
Arrington and Siegler can try to play journalism police all they want, but the fact is they have turned themselves into hacks for hire and as such have lost all credibility. They’re not the only ones working this racket. Now we have PandoDaily, a new tech blog crated by their TechCrunch pal Sarah Lacy and funded by CrunchFund and a bunch of other VCs and angels whose companies PandoDaily aims to cover.
But what is hilarious is the reaction Dan's attack provoked,
Arrington:
He says that our insanely over subscribed venture fund is just a joke. He says our work at TechCrunch over the last six years is a joke. He says MG is a joke. He drags Pando Daily and Techmeme into the fight and trashes them too.
I’m surprised that my mother wasn’t mentioned, frankly.
Oh my fur and whiskers! Then
Siegler:
That passion is conveyed in our writing. And it’s conveyed when we meet with startups. Ask any company in our portfolio why they accepted us as investors. That Dan Lyons would imply it’s some sort of shakedown shows how very clueless he is.
And it shows exactly why he could never do what we do. His words reek of jealousy. Of disillusionment. He’s angry. He doesn’t get it. And worst of all, he simply does not matter anymore. The only time he did was as a joke. He’s that guy who used to be that guy that was pretending to be Steve Jobs once upon a time. That must be extremely frustrating.
It's hard to believe people could be this obtuse, the other possibility is that Lyons hit too close to home. Given the amount of projection the latter is most likely. Then again Siegler
just discovered how defensive patents work, and
only recently discovered how ignorant he is, so maybe he really is that dim.
