Oh and so is Nick Denton. I have been meaning to write this post for a while. If you are like me you have been following the ‘lost iPhone prototype saga‘ in the news. From the very first reports I had a feeling that Jason and the staff at Gawker Media had screwed up by ‘buying’ the ‘lost’ next-generation iPhone. Nick Denton the head of Gawker tweeted, “Yes, we’re proud practitioners of checkbook journalism. Anything for the story!”
Really? You don’t have to be a lawyer to realize that paying for stolen property is likely a very bad idea – and in most states a criminal act. Why not pay for the interview instead? Anything but paying someone for a phone you know for a FACT they don’t own. Surely Jason and Nick failed to talk to their lawyers. Even their email response to Steve Jobs seems sophomoric.
