Here's something grotesquely unethical: Vox's Timothy B. Lee, rapidly becoming one of the internet's worst voices, is boasting today of how he's investing in Bitcoin, a cyber-currency propped up by media attention.

TechCrunch contributor Billy Gallagher is the latest writer for the site to make the jump into venture capital. Only this time, Gallagher is going to continue writing for the site, despite a conflict of interest so large it can be viewed from space.

This is why stuff like this matters: less than a month after investor MG Siegler announced his move to Google, he's written a TechCrunch column pillorying Apple for looking dull. There's no mention—by Siegler or TechCrunch—of the fact that he works for Apple's rival.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After years of unethically covering the industry which his girlfriend advertises for a living, New York Times tech elder David Pogue attempted the impossible by trying to make an honest woman of a PR rep: the two married this weekend in California.

When last we met PandoDaily, the ever-conflicted crew was gushing about how great their benefactor's shoe company is. Today, Pando's Shill-in-chief Sarah Lacy thinks questionable, for-profit online courses are worth a shot. Can you guess what comes next?

Bad news for people who like bad news-gathering: it looks like startup mouthpiece PandoDaily will actually cop to its deeply conflicted editorial coverage. But only if you rub it in their noses first.

PandoDaily urges you not to "give up on PCs yet," based on a PC-selling startup that's backed by a guy who also backs PandoDaily.