Did Apple pay Think Secret to shut down?
Nick Ciarelli, the Harvard student who was proprietor of the Web site that tried to scooped Apple on its own technology news and often succeeded, isn't saying. But if he accepted money to shut up and settle litigation with Apple -- even if he was moving on to other things anyway, as Wired magazine suggested -- it's too bad. Even the idea of a journalism subject silencing a journalist with money and threats is disconcerting. And make no mistake, Ciarelli was a journalist. Thanks to the Web, we all can be journalists now.
