Just a dude on the internet

Guy's been annoyed with bugs on his Android phone.
Guy notices phone is burning through battery with no clear explanation why.
Guy writes about it on his personal blog.
Story gets picked up by bgr.com.
Story shows up on the front page of yahoo.com.
Brilliant commenters like Daren say:
What an extremely smart guy Jason Kallelis must be. I mean look at his resume, even working for "Writing About Tech". You would think that somebody this smart would realize that it may actually be a hardware issue rather than a software issue? Like battery drain has NEVER happened on iOS or an iPhone?

... and so on it goes.

And all this time, Jason is just a random dude on the internet with an opinion. He's not claiming to be an expert. He's not claiming he hasn't missed something. He's just frustrated and enjoys sharing on the internet.

The meta story here is:
1. Just how unvetted this content made it to the front page of yahoo. For all we know the content is completely made up
2. Just how little commenters like Daren look at what they're reading before they pick any excuse to poke and make fun
3. Just how powerful media outlets can be by legitimizing a random person's opinion, and therefore how irresponsible they are for providing no context about what they are sharing

We really need good journalism to come back, and for people to recognize the clear distinction between credible, researched stories versus a stream of opinions by random people in the world.

We also need people to somehow hold their emotions in check when a random person chooses a different phone for a different reason.