I'm surprised that Bloomberg would publish what amounts to a minor hatchet job. I know the financial sector is highly connected and this includes the 'impartial

I'm surprised that Bloomberg would publish what amounts to a minor hatchet job. I know the financial sector is highly connected and this includes the 'impartial' financial news sector, and that they're protecting one of their own but this reads like a petty personal attack, not a civilized and well reasoned deconstruction of Smith's arguments. Consequently it's an implicit admission that they believe most of Smith's accusations are true. Why didn't they just save themselves some typing and print "Yeah! So? You smell bad."