Us And Them

parislemon:

This weekend’s bitchmeme has been brewing for a while. The entry point was Mike’s decision to become an active investor again (while remaining at TechCrunch), but the main idea goes back far beyond that: bias, conflicts, and journalism.

Over the past 24 hours, this has all made for a great debate on other sites, on Twitter, and even (if you can believe it) in the TechCrunch comments. But the thing most fascinating to me about all of this is one underlying notion: that bloggers and journalists are somehow different.

It’s “us” and “them”.

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