It’s easy to find fault with individual articles, and I spend a lot of my time on this board doing exactly that.
However, to suggest as you did that business writers as a whole have become the pawns of naked shortsellers is carrying healthy skepticism into the realm of InvestorVillage paranoia, IMO.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”