*groan*
They bought a stolen device from a person not affiliated with apple.
Knowing it hasn't been released, they only made an effort to contact apple and gray powell only AFTER they had posted several articles on the device.
They smeared the engineer (Gray Powell) by alleging he lost the device; that's not journalism.
Gizmodo must have thought that by repeating, "it was lost, not stolen" enough times, the police wouldn't come after them.
Also, they made no real effort to return it - an apple lawyer had to go on record before gizmodo would return it.
They bought a stolen device from a person not affiliated with apple.
Knowing it hasn't been released, they only made an effort to contact apple and gray powell only AFTER they had posted several articles on the device.
They smeared the engineer (Gray Powell) by alleging he lost the device; that's not journalism.
Gizmodo must have thought that by repeating, "it was lost, not stolen" enough times, the police wouldn't come after them.
Also, they made no real effort to return it - an apple lawyer had to go on record before gizmodo would return it.
They bought a tech device of unknown origin to investigate it and report on it (as is their job) and returned it to it's owner. They didn't sell it, keep it or lie about it.
That's hardly a nefarious act like some people are trying to make it out to be.
I would love to see the skeletons in the closets of all the people screaming "CRIMINALS!!!" the loudest. Me thinks they doth protest too much.