The change of tone in Tech Crunch over the last 5 years was something that I feel personally sad about.<p>I was a long-time reader, and being in a peripheral place where we looked up to the American companies, TC sounded very optimistic with their coverage, bringing success stories, talking with founders, and most importantly, being on this industry radar, at least from the standpoint of a more journalistic and general audience level.<p>During the latest years, TC became a bit bitter around the industry and forgot the sea of small companies and scale-ups, and started to be more political and critical, and the least being a good thing in a certain way, probably does not have the ideological muscle to do it like the more mainstream media. In other words, if I want to check some critique, I would go to some independent and ideological shop and get the straight point, then some sugar-coated criticism.