CNET blogger in self-righteous crash-and-burn

This crock of shite by CNET blogger Steve Tobak must take the award for 2007's most self-righteous, sanctimonious bollocks. Read on:

I don't know how many times I've read a post or an article by somesmall-minded, self-important journalist advising a public company'sboard of directors on how to "fix" the company. The most common adviceis "sell the company," "fire the CEO," or better still, "fire all theexecutives."
Even if a company is screwing up, how is a journalist - whose entiremanagement experience consists of looking at his watch to be sure hefiles a story by 3 pm - qualified to delve out management advice? Ismastery of a keyboard sufficient experience to know how to run acompany?
Do these poor excuses for reporters have any idea how a companyworks? For example, does it really benefit shareholders to sell atroubled company when its stock is at its lowest and has no bargainingpower? Did the reporter take a few months to analyze the company'ssituation and determine that an acquisition makes sense or is evenplausible?
Sure, lots of executives are incompetent or dysfunctional. But is ajournalist qualified to make that determination? In what universe doesit make sense for somebody who writes about a company once or twice ayear to make a critical determination that a CEO with 30-yearsexperience should be fired?

Tobak continues: "On the other hand, I'm aware that this cuts bothways. I'm an ex-industry executive writing a blog. What qualifies me tobe a writer? I didn't study journalism or literature. Journalistsprobably laugh at my crude grammar and composition, scoff at the way Istructure my posts."
That'd be the least of it, mate. Tobak defends: "Well, the difference is that I don't presume to tell anyone how to write."

Oh do piss off. This hack didn't study journalism either, although Ihave been known to read a few books. That aside, the problem is this:wtf is this self-confessed amateur bloggery doing passing itself off asjournalism?
This is Web 2.0 in all its glory - everyone an expert, everyoneindignant, every two-bit hustler a pundit ready to expound andproselytize.
Back in Tobakville, meanwhile, our master analyst concludes: "Everytime I read this kind of narcissistic journalism it makes me cringelike nails on a chalkboard. It's like Brittney [sic] Spears givingadvice on parenting or O.J. Simpson teaching anger management. It'slike Bernie Ebbers, Dennis Kozlowski, and Jeff Skilling teaching aclass on business ethics."

Yeah, that's like, so like...