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The post title here is misleading. What's being described here by Yglesias isn't a directive to be "critical" (in the colloquial sense meaning "negative"), but more a directive to be skeptical and investigate:

> Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started covering it with a very tough investigative lens — highly oppositional at all times and occasionally unfair.

A lot of tech people would like tech coverage puffy, un-skeptical, and positive, but that's totally inappropriate for an industry as influential and frankly difficult to understand (for a layman) as tech. It sounds like now they coverage like they cover the government, which to me is totally appropriate.