Just a few days ago, I wrote that you had to have a death wish to take on Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis and TechCrunch, and one of the TC40 Demo Pit 100 has done precisely that.
I don't think Dawn Douglas has anything like a death wish.
As Scoble describes Dawn, she is a class act. She feels she was dealt with abusively and she has been around the block too many times to be pushed around. I don't know anything for sure about what happened because I was not there, but Dawn's writing has a ring of truth to it.
Then there's the issue of covering the ethically deprived pay per post people. I once wrote that I wish they would crash and burn. Then I wrote about them no more until this point. There is a blogger, a rather prominent one. I wrote that I wished he would shut up and sit down. Then I wrote no more. I get enough traffic without helping to draw attention to the sites that I wish no well.
Much is said about Michael Arrington and his temper. I don't know Mike well. He has always treated me with respect. He hosted the Naked Conversations launch party, to which I will always be grateful. But word of his arrogant behavior keeps circulating and he would do well to listen very closely to what Dawn has said.
And to adjust course accordingly if what she says is even partly true.
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