This past Saturday, "We got to a point where we agreed on the statement that I would stay with AOL and continue to write," he tells Digits. Arrington
and AOL executives then began conceptualizing a blog post he would write announcing the news, but "there was a concern that we would 'reignite the flames' with anything I wrote," Arrington adds. "We
just couldn't come to an agreement."
Meanwhile, Arrington said he was concerned to the end that he wouldn't "be able to write whatever I felt was true," which he believed meant that TechCrunch wouldn't have "real editorial independence." Score one for journalistic integrity.