At its best, iterative journalism is what TechCrunch does: rile up the crowd by repeating sensational allegations and then pretend that they are waiting for the facts to come in. They see no absurdity in publishing a post with the headline PAYPAL SHREDS OSTENSIBLY RARE VIOLIN BECAUSE IT CARES and then opening the article with “Now a lot of this story isn’t out yet and I have a line in to Paypal [sic] about this, so before we get out the pitchforks lets [sic] discuss what happened.”
