The writer of that piece is neither a "professional billsh1tter" nor a "promotional copy writer". He is a thoroughly decent man, an experienced and enthusiastic PPL.
Without knowing this gentleman, nor details of his writing(s), the word "enthusiastic" seems operative. It's pretty easy for enthusiasts to get engaged by events, and swept up in the moment. Perhaps this can cause a momentary lack of complete research on a topic. A brief, well intentioned omission is much more tolerable for me than repeated active misleading of large audiences, apparently for personal aggrandizement and gain.
I don't think that TCT has merited complementary reporting, but if the reporters are reporting facts, that's fair enough. Perhaps the facts of the future will take a different direction than they did in the past for TCT.