I?m Leaving TechCrunch. Here?s Why.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark ?that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

To those who have been following the recent TechCrunch drama, this post won't come as much of a surprise. A little over a week ago I wrote that, unless Mike Arrington was allowed to choose his own successor as editor of TechCrunch, I would no longer write for the site. Sure enough, this past Monday, a statement from AOL announced Erick Schonfeld as the new editor. A lot of outside observers assume that Schonfeld, who has been with TechCrunch since 2007, was Mike's choice to take over. But, in the interests of transparency, it's important to clarify what really happened. The truth is, Erick was Arianna Huffington's choice, not TechCrunch's.

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