Primarily because the first sensationalist article may very well be both the way Apple found out about this app and the very reason they had to clamp down on it

Primarily because the first sensationalist article may very well be both the way Apple found out about this app and the very reason they had to clamp down on it - if <conservative parent> sees that gizmodo headline taken up elsewhere, they could be very reasonably expected to think "oh no! Little Timmy has an iphone! He can now look at pornography!" The second article is another sensationalist piece, but this is made much worse by the fact it is feeding off the very activity it probably caused with the first. If your newspaper of choice ran a story decrying a particular building as the source of all the worst crime in the city one day, and after a police crackdown ran a piece talking about police abusing their powers or judges granting search warrants willy-nilly, would you be okay with it?