The judge apparently made a comment to the tune of "an interested public is not the same thing as 'public interest'," which I found to be the single best "sum-it-all-up" statement.
ThinkSecret/PowerPage/AppleInsider didn't leak information about Apple using radioactive materials in their workstations, nor that Apple was underpaying their employees, nor that Apple was forcing their workers to work in unsafe conditions. Something like that -- a "whistleblower" kind of information -- would most definitely be protected, and ThinkSecret/PowerPage/AppleInsider would have been heroes for publishing that kind of information.
Just because the public is dying to know what Apple's going to release next doesn't make it ok, and there's no legal backing for that kind of behavior. Besides, it's not like fines are being levied or their websites are going to be shut down. Just show up to court, tell Apple who sent you the information, and go home -- sheesh!