STRICTLY BETWEEN YOU, ME, AND 116,990 TWITTER FOLLOWERS

“Obviously much of the communication I’ve had with the company the last week is private and confidential. I will share this email that I sent to Sarah this morning, though.”

Venture journalist Michael Arrington, outlining his confidentiality policy in a post explaining that he’s shocked, shocked to have been fired as a board member by PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy, his former TechCrunch protégée, Uncrunched, 9 April 2012

HOW’S THE FICTION BUSINESS, MIKE?

“Getting it right is expensive. Getting it first is cheap.”

TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, on saving money by having his cutrate reporters make it up as they go along, New York Times, 7 June 2009