re: #6 Aceofwhat?
Anyone who thinks that a high-profile position, at nearly any organization, isn’t subject to unwritten rules about not embarrassing the bejesus out of said organization is a putz.
He’s a reporter and a opinion journalist… he’s editorializing most of the time… as a writer myself, I don’t see how playing both sides, publicly or privately is a problem unless you find that writer to be lying, misreporting, intentionally deceiving.