It seems to me that the Wired article was written after the TechCrunch article in the same vein.<p>First Last.fm; now this. That makes 2 TechCrunch articles in 2 weeks that make some kind of big, unsubstantiated claim. For hits, perhaps. Maybe fake journalism is their new weekly feature.
This is a pretty awful standard of journalism. I'd expect much better from Wired.<p>I hate to wish bad things onto people, but that's a basic ethical fault that should be punished, because it decreases the credibility of the whole paper (and a newspaper with no credibility is worthless). Not saying he should be fired, but harshly reprimanded, definitely. Twisting the facts to make a story more sensational is very improper.
Oh come on, we all know it was pay-per-post and whether we accept it or not, it comes from redmond.<p>And TC is their propaganda lab.<p>No credibility at all.