Michael Arrington has been slighted! Hide!

Apparently someone who has a website didn't know what TechCrunch was. Arrington seems to be dazed and horrified; see his comments.

I've always thought the man was a bit full of himself, but this by far the best example I've seen in recent months.

You have to assume that he never leaves Silicon Valley; otherwise the fact that no-one had the first clue who he was would presumably make him see sense.

TechCrunch in Bad Grammar Article Retraction Shocker

The following, from Michael Arrington's frighteningly enthusiastic blog TechCrunch, appeared in my RSS reader recently:

Set those TiVo’s, folks. Michael just taped a segment for tonight’s Charlie Rose Show.

Note the horrible, wrong, bad, naughty apostrophe. There's also a missing full-stop and some weird dashes, but, quite frankly, they pale in comparison.

When I clicked, to see if people had noticed (TechCrunch readers aren't all the sharpest pencils in the box) I noticed that the article was gone. Just gone. Vanished, like an old oak table.

Whether the deletion was to cover up crimes against English, or just to conceal the fact that Michael Arrington will be appearing on television (they have special camera lenses for the occasion; they can last as long as thirty-seven seconds without shattering) is not, at this point, clear.

Just in case you don't believe me, some evidence. The title bar for the above link:

And the title bar for a non-existent link which would be rather entertaining:

What's going on here, exactly?