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Things just got EXTRA exciting in the drama that is unfolding between TechCrunch, its parent company AOL and Michael Arrington, the co-editor of the site and the new manager of a multi-million-dollar startup investment thingie. (AOL said that Arrington would no longer be the editor since his new role; he clearly disagrees!) So just now Arrington says they can either be free to do whatever they want WHATSOEVER, and not report to the Huffington Post— or AOL can sell the site back to its original owners. Crazy thing is? He's taking the absolutely correct hard line. AOL said TechCrunch would be independent; that is now not true. Good for him!
This is way more complicated than those Rookie stories.
*Pops Popcorn*? I should've known Big Popcorn had a hand in The Awl.
And the winner is … Jason Calacanis!
Enh, you can tell Arrington is under AOL's thumb because throughout the piece he writes "Aol" in lowercase, JUST LIKE HIS CORPORATE MASTERS WANT.
in the war of two completely unlikable web properties, I am biting my nails to see who wins…