Michael Arrington: “I’m a Click-Whoring Jackass”
Jerry Yang: “We’re Done”
That’s the headline over at TechCrunch. Pretty simple right, one would almost infer from the quotation marks that that’s actually what the Yahoo CEO said. I mean, I didn’t go to no fancy journalism school, but I do seem to recall from my fifth grade English class that quotation marks imply that someone actually said what’s between them.
Apparently Michael Arrington missed that day of school, because not 2 paragraphs into his little hit piece we get this admission.
And while Yang never actually said the words quoted in the title above, his tone and body language screamed “We’re Done.”
So, what you’re saying Michael, is that you made that quote up for your headline. That, my friend, is the work of a click-whoring jackass.
Posted on May 29th, 2008 under Posts • Tags: blogorama, jackassery, microhoo. • 
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May 29th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
http://ismikearringtonadick.com/
May 29th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
typo on ‘actually’. Guess you didn’t learn that in fifth grade english either.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
ya, he is a jackass sometimes
but most of the time he writes compelling articles
May 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
eh.. duh?
he’s been doing this shit forever. i’m not sure why it surprises anyone. he makes a shit-ton of money off it, and i have nothing against that. i just refuse to buy into anything that’s written over there
@david
fiction does tend to make for more compelling reading than, you know, like, the ‘truth’ and stuff.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I hate this too but this is a really mild case. The worst offenders are the papers that print really misleading headlines and sometimes first paragraphs. You have to dig into the meat of the story to get the full picture.
Often people don’t read entire articles so it has the potential to mislead many. We do live in a PR driven world so I wouldn’t expect things to change much.
@type-master
If you can’t dispute someone’s idea, don’t rag on their grammar; people make mistakes. You also shouldn’t point out grammatical errors while making them.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
You are a bunch of sad cunts - He was trying to make a statement. The Angry Drunk, your a fuck*ng food whore, how do you reply to that? Get a a life!! See if you can find a grammatical error in this, while stuffing a sandwich into you FAT ARS* face!!
May 29th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
@John:
You’re an idiot. At least have the balls to not censor your own self.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
@The Angry Drunk: Are you stuffing your mouth while your typing this?
May 30th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Hmm… only a cunt would say FAT ARS* face. Guess that makes you a cunt John.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am
John. This is not my fight, nor am I interested, but since you asked:
“See if you can find a grammatical error in this..”
You probably meant to say:
“The Angry Drunk, you’re a fuck*ng food whore…”
‘Your’ implies ownership, you’re is a contraction of ‘you are’. Don’t be sad, it’s a very common mistake amongst the poorly educated rabble.
Notice how I managed to point out your grammatical education short-comings without having to refer to a single body part? Neat, no?
May 30th, 2008 at 10:00 am
not sure what his point is of bashing the jain guy from infospace or the twitter developer. yes, i know traffic but to publicly humiliate doesn’t seem so hot.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
fu*k You all!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
The mighty arrington’s young boy asses has arrived, behold in amazement as they wink their assholes for top serp.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
God, I’m so sick of this shit! You read an article because of the headline and you find out, “well, that’s not what REALLY happened, or that’s not what he REALLY said.”
Reminds me of this doof:
Vista screams past XP in gaming tests!
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=458
Fuckin sick of it!
Thank you for letting me vent, I think I’m better now…cheers!