Yea, it really does sound like you’re taking crazy pills. It’s not a movie, not everyone that critiques someone you like does it as part of their grand plan of world domination. There is a very simple explanation of his motives: he’s a journalist and he’s doing his job, like he always did. Trying to assign some neferious motives to, out of all people, Steve Burke, who has shown nothing but complete integrity in the past, is just absolutely ridiculous.