Is Mike Arrington From TechCrunch An Extortionist ?

Ohh boy either Michael Arrington from TechCrunch is an extortionist and lier (cry baby fits well too) or everyone is against him.

In the last couple of month there have been many reports of Arrington threatening to write negative review of start up if they do not get an exclusive. And there is also the conflict of interest when Arrington revealed that he write from start up that he is an investor.

And the latest claim that Arrington is still at it come from Y Combinator's founder Paul Graham who invest in Aribnb.

This last couple of weeks there have been a buzz regarding an incident with an Airbnb customer in San Fransisco that had her apartment ransacked. Arrington wrote a report attacking Airbnb and Graham wrote in response. Here is what he said:

I’ve just learned more about this situation, and it turns out Airbnb has been offering to fix it, from the very beginning. From the beginning they offered to pay to get her a new place and new stuff, and do whatever else she wanted.

The story Arrington wrote yesterday about Airbnb not offering to help was bullshit. He asked a company spokesman what Airbnb was doing to help her. The spokesman, who’d been told by their lawyers that he couldn’t go into detail about that because of the precedent said “I can’t comment on that.” So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said “Well, unless you tell me I’m going to write that you’re not willing to do anything for her.” And he did. Really not cool.
I’ve talked to the Airbnb guys and they are already doing everything they could be doing to help this woman.

Even if you don’t believe they are nice guys (which they are, among the nicest of all the people we’ve funded), do you really think they are so dumb that they don’t realize it’s not worth the bad PR to save money and effort in this situation?

Either Arrington is a bully and need to tone it out or everybody else is lying.