and concludes that he understands why people are upset but that a lot of their claims are debunkable. I'd argue that he does something far different. He spins

and concludes that he understands why people are upset but that a lot of their claims are debunkable. I'd argue that he does something far different. He spins the claims. In some cases, as noted in the comments, he seems to react to the wrong issue or provides solutions that aren't adequate. It's just odd that as a reporter my first inclination wouldn't be to diminish the outrage of professional editors, but rather to fully understand them. He took tweets and composed a list. But it doesn't appear that he actually said, "OK, let me follow-up with people at Sony and NBC and understand these issues and write a post detailing the issues and getting a detailed response from Apple". It appears he took the tweets and worked on trying to debunk OR downplay the issues. To me this is advocacy. Which I might expect from John Gruber (although honestly, I can't find a post of his even with this much effort in advocacy) but not from a journalist.