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TechCrunch40 Disclosure: Why was the Hammer there?

September 18, 2007 |

(via Mathew Ingram) Some interesting chatter in the blogosphere about the fact that Mike Arrington is an investor in MC Hammer’s DanceJam project.

Allen Stern has the details about the relationship between MC Hammer and Arrington:

Tonight we learn that MC Hammer’s new DanceJam company is backed by Michael Arrington, Ron Conway and others. Don Dodge has the details on the startup and the VC backing. I went back and checked and there appears to be no disclosure on the posts on TC and TC20 blog when Hammer was selected to be a panelist. So I am guessing the funding must have come after the panelist announcement was made?

I have always found Arrington’s personal investments in the companies he covers a bit suspicious. He strikes me as a good guy, but TechCrunch, like any journalistic venture is based on integrity or at least the appearance of integrity. (Non-)Disclosures like this, and others, put TechCrunch in jeopardy of loosing it’s coveted status as the #1 blog of the Web 2.0 cycle.


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