Michael Arrington: “I’m a Click-Whoring Jackass”

May 29th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

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.

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  • steve
  • steve
  • typo-master

    typo on ‘actu­ally’. Guess you didn’t learn that in fifth grade eng­lish either.

  • typo-master

    typo on ‘actu­ally’. Guess you didn’t learn that in fifth grade eng­lish either.

  • http://www.storylog.com david

    ya, he is a jack­ass sometimes

    but most of the time he writes com­pelling articles

  • http://www.storylog.com david

    ya, he is a jack­ass sometimes

    but most of the time he writes com­pelling articles

  • meh

    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.

  • meh

    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.

  • http://www.sethsblog.com Seth

    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.

  • http://www.sethsblog.com Seth

    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.

  • John

    You are a bunch of sad cunts — He was try­ing to make a state­ment. The Angry Drunk, your a fuckng 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!!

  • John

    You are a bunch of sad cunts — He was try­ing to make a state­ment. The Angry Drunk, your a fuckng 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!!

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    @John: You’re an idiot. At least have the balls to not cen­sor your own self.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    @John: You’re an idiot. At least have the balls to not cen­sor your own self.

  • John

    @The Angry Drunk: Are you stuff­ing your mouth while your typ­ing this?

  • John

    @The Angry Drunk: Are you stuff­ing your mouth while your typ­ing this?

  • johnisa​cunt​.com

    Hmm… only a cunt would say FAT ARS* face. Guess that makes you a cunt John.

  • johnisa​cunt​.com

    Hmm… only a cunt would say FAT ARS* face. Guess that makes you a cunt John.

  • Andre

    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?

  • Andre

    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?

  • http://okdork.com noah

    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.

  • http://okdork.com noah

    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.

  • http://upp.net Urpapa

    fu*k You all!

  • http://upp.net Urpapa

    fu*k You all!

  • drunk­ard

    The mighty arrington’s young boy asses has arrived, behold in amaze­ment as they wink their ass­holes for top serp.

  • drunk­ard

    The mighty arrington’s young boy asses has arrived, behold in amaze­ment as they wink their ass­holes for top serp.

  • JayMan

    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/​B​o​t​t​/​?​p​=​458

    Fuckin sick of it!

    Thank you for let­ting me vent, I think I’m bet­ter now…cheers!

  • JayMan

    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/​B​o​t​t​/​?​p​=​458

    Fuckin sick of it!

    Thank you for let­ting me vent, I think I’m bet­ter now…cheers!