Tech news does tend to head towards this kind of article. I think they will have some in depth long form pieces mixed in with the standard stuff. I think the problem is that to really drive page views you need a lot of this stuff, many posts a day. Going in depth will earn you some different readers at the cost of some others and people won't revisit nearly as often.
Yeah, I'm not really impressed by a journalist who calls Zynga a "hot new company to work for".
Agreed. A lot of her stories look like ad placements for the companies she's covering too.
what qualifies as a "different" tech news site?
Something like Ars Technica, which is way meatier than the hyperbole and cheerleading that the PandoLemonCrunch school of venture journalism is capable of.