By the same token (reviewing on a prototype device and passing a final judgement), his review tweets about how the N900 was the best device of the year or some such pronouncement when he was praising the N900 and Maemo - was also BAD journalism.

But we didn't question him then. We just licked it up.

I am not trying to justify Eldar's recent statement or his crash reports, but just saying we should have applied the same standard of critique when he was positively reviewing it and called him on it.