Kind of weird when both one of the top VCs (and someone involved in the transaction) comments on Hacker News, and CNN picks it up. I thought all of this was kind of inside baseball at best.
It's not as if CNN are sitting on HN and other sites omnipotently following and making sense of everything... they're following twitter and the information is revealed there and then they click the link to see what the fuss is about and whether there is a story.
For instance... this piece about the Midas List was a really well balanced look at the issues with Forbes' list.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/09/fools-gold-in-vc-l...
Dan knows his stuff.
I can't comment on him knowing his stuff since I'm not familiar with his work, but I definitely like his style ;)