San Francisco Chronicle media writer Dan Fost wrote that TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington, who has broken some big business stories in the past year, plans to take a break to evaluate investments and his life.
“Old-school journalists question Arrington’s ethics and potential for conflicts of interest. He even engaged in a high-profile dustup with the New York Times at an Online News Association conference in October in which he accused the Times of ethical lapses but later backed down. Blogger and author Nick Carr charged that while Arrington discloses his investments when he writes about companies, he doesn’t always disclose those investments when he writes — sometimes negatively — about their competitors. Tech gossip blog Valleywag has a field day with each alleged transgression.
“Arrington struck back on his blog, writing that his friendships and his activity as an entrepreneur and investor help him get access to inside information.”
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