Posted on November 30, 2007 by Katy

When I looked in the dictionary for the word arrogant I was just sure that I was going to find a picture of Michael Arrington. But since I didn’t, I’m including one.

ar•ro•gant [ar-uh-guhnt] –adjective
1. making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official.
2. characterized by or proceeding from arrogance: arrogant claims.

Just when you thought that Michael and TechCrunch couldn’t be any lower than pond scum, he makes a post calling a PayPerPost blogger pathetic for wondering how’s she’s going to feed her family with no PayPerPost opportunities to take and no PageRank.

While every person has their own opinion of the moral principals behind PayPerPost, it’s one thing to target the company and another to target a Mother of 5 children who blogs AND makes extra money for her family.

I mean really, do all these bloggers really think that they are that much better? Go ahead, look through TechCrunch and I dare you to tell me that those links plastered all over that site aren’t sponsored. What’s so different for them? They get hundreds of thousand dollars instead of a just a few, that’s the difference. This doesn’t make them better and the value of the links still puts them in the same playing field of those who make just a few.

Forget boycotting Google, maybe it’s time TechCrunch readers reevaluate who they’re getting their information from. Michael Arrington has less moral standing than the companies he continually bashes.

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