Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
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Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#2The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state.
Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#3The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state. Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
It's all seeming a bit overblown though, no? Like someone is butthurt over it and they're going to tear her down no matter what. Was there even any real harm from her actions?
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#4The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state. Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
Right. This person seems to have some serious issues and needs to get help. Any legal issues (fraud) should be dealt with by authorities and I'm not sure there's much benefit in creating a circus around a young person making mistakes, and possibly committing credit card fraud.
But it does seem clearer now why TechCrunch seems to have taken it all so personally. Sounds like they were among those fooled. It really should have been mentioned in the original article that she lived with a TechCruncher. Would have made the personal animosity more transparent. They're obviously embarrassed and lashing out.
However you only have yourself to blame when you fall for easily-fact-checkable lies. If any group has the collective rolodex to make a couple of calls and authenticate the veracity of such claims it's TC.
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#5The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state. Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
Right. This person seems to have some serious issues and needs to get help. Any legal issues (fraud) should be dealt with by authorities and I'm not sure there's much benefit in creating a circus around a young person making mistakes, and possibly committing credit card fraud. But it does seem clearer now why TechCrunch seems to have taken it all so personally. Sounds like they were among those fooled. It really shou…
Would have made the personal animosity more transparent.
Consider the source.
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#6The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state. Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
It's all seeming a bit overblown though, no? Like someone is butthurt over it and they're going to tear her down no matter what. Was there even any real harm from her actions?
I think that's it. I think it's embarrassment on behalf of the media folks who should have known better but who were duped. A lot of the journalists in the space enjoy the feeling of being on friendly terms and hanging out with the movers and shakers in the industry. It's understandable I suppose. They're only human. So there's a heavy internal bias towards believing you're special and these people want to hang out with you, rather than here's a phony trying to leach off you.
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. This person seems to have some serious issues and needs to get help. Any legal issues (fraud) should be dealt with by authorities and I'm not sure there's much benefit in creating a circus around a young person making mistakes, and possibly committing credit card fraud. But it does seem clearer now why TechCrunch seems to have taken it all so personally. Sounds like they were among those fooled. It really shou…
Would have made the personal animosity more transparent. Consider the source.
Indeed. But I've ranted elsewhere at my distress as someone who's been in Silicon Valley for more than a decade now, at the deteriorating state of industry media coverage and its descent in certain quarters towards soap opera status. Too many posts where the journalists make themselves the story, too much loss of objectivity.
People say "well Arrington did it", but I don't think he did. He was genuinely well connected from a long time in the valley. He was genuinely a trusted source. So his posts had insight and were very well written. Not right 100% of the time, in the opinions of many, I'm sure, but who is?
The gossipy nature is distressing. The Twitter squabbles between rival publications are often childish and unnecessary. But there are folks out there trying to build quality alternatives and I have no doubt that things will get better for industry coverage. That in itself may push TC back to quality - let's face it they still run great events and have a loud megaphone in the industry. Swapping that for TMZ-style pageview grasps sounds like an inferior business strategy for the long haul.
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#9"First, she told acquaintances she was engaged to NHL player Ryan Clowe..."
Seriously? WHY? That's one of the easiest facts to check.
Re: Records Point to Credit Card Fraud By Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein
#10The TC article made her look like a scheming fraudster, but this deeper dive makes it sound like she has some serious mental/emotional issues. Perhaps it's time to stop tweeting hate messages at her, and time to persuade her to sit down with someone and talk through her mental state. Interesting that the TC article made no mention of her living with a TC employee, however.
It's all seeming a bit overblown though, no? Like someone is butthurt over it and they're going to tear her down no matter what. Was there even any real harm from her actions?
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