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# Le Web 3: Mike Arrington Explains Sam Sethi Situation
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/12/le_web_3_mike_a/
- Published: 2006-12-13T23:40:21.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-07T17:54:30.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, leweb, mike arrington, Sam Sethi, techcrunch

Mike Arrington has put up a long post on CrunchNotes explaining [why Sam Sethi was sacked](https://web.archive.org/web/20070101102900/http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=322), from his point of view. It’s a very different one to the story Sethi has been promoting:

> The actions that resulted in his dismissal were additional comments he wrote on that second post, announcing “that TechCrunch UK will be doing a series of seminars and a conference next year as well as a series of smaller meetings in conjunction with friends & partners which have been in the planning for sometime now.”
> 
> These events were not discussed with me, and certainly were not approved. The fact that he announced and promoted them while trashing a competing event was a clear conflict of interest and was not appropriate. I do not consider this to be ethical behavior.

The Guardian’s media blog, Organ Grinder, has [some coverage of the story](https://web.archive.org/web/20070112151404/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/12/sethi%5Fleaves%5Ftechcrunch.html), too.