My only purpose in bringing up the following is to show how some stories are more thoroughly investigated online than in the media. This is partly why blogs captivate the media so much. John Gruber did a fine job tracking down almost all the elements of the story. Along with everyone else I've read on the story, he did miss a couple of people and things I found from looking at all the links from the original story and googling it. But overall he did a better job than the media.
