I am not surprised to see this kind of journalism on Bitcoin coming from a source like this. You have to remember the editor will have to be
more knowledable about the subject for them to approve the articles, and in many instances these editors are even more clueless than the
journalist writing the article, so the editor do not want to look stupid, and he just accepts what the journalist is feeding them.
But the editor could contact a bitcoin expert and pay him $1000/hr to ask: "Is the OK, or bullshit". In two minutes the bitcoiner can say this is bullshit. So, for a cost of $33 (two minutes) the editor can have a decent story with integrity.
Next time you read a story on a completely different topic, one in which you are not an expert, just remember it is also likely to be extreme bullshit too.
Integrity is long gone from reporting. Journalism today does not include even a tiny obligation to be correct.