Another Intern exposes The Noo Meedja's Pimped Clothes

Gawker on a TechCrunch Teen Journoblogger who said he'd write about a startup in exchange for a MacBook Air:

Now, before we all castigate a 16-year-old, let's note that "asking for shit in exchange for publicity" is incredibly common on the internet. No less an internet legend than Julia Allison will tell you how far "asking for a MacBook Air" can take you. Most flacks know that bloggers are basically fine with bribery—you just have to be discreet about it! And Daniel, on at least one other occasion, apparently did get a computer in exchange for a post.

Quite - prizes for pimping is a well established rule in the Noo Meedja as in the Olde (just follow the hooha about Mommyblogger swag), and - one may suspect - it's not entirely rare among the big tech blogs. Or was he the Obligatory Bad Intern in the Barrel and made it up all on his own?

TechCrunch is shocked, shocked, I tell you.