Leo Laporte vs. Mike Arrington…Fight!
This is an open letter to Mike Arrington.
Mike, I don’t know you and I have not followed your career. That having been said, I want you to know this is not meant to bash on you for what happened on the Gilmor Gang.
I do know Leo. I have come to know him for many years from the Screensavers right up till TWIT. The one thing that should never come in to question when dealing with Leo is his integrity. I realize that you are a busy man and cannot watch TWIT 24/7 but, just before he started The Tech Guy (his radio show), Leo had already been pointing out some things that he did not like about the Pre after using it for 24 hours. This was on TWIT before The Gilmor Gang started recording. Secondly, while this whole back and forth was going on, Leo said he was going to buy one. That alone should have been enough for anyone to know that Leo was not biased towards a positive Pre because it was a “free” unit that Palm sent him.
Finally, if your intention was to call out Palm for not sending Techcrunch a review unit and sending them only to Palm positive reviewers, then you should have called them out and not used Leo as a pawn in your game to out Palm. I realize that what has been said, and done cannot be undone, but perhaps you will think about this incident going forward and hopefully you learn from it.
I wish you no ill will and you are entitled to your opinions. Leo may have overreacted but without his integrity he is nothing.
Sincerely,
Richard Ventura