It's funny how some people can produce walls of text attacking Google at the drop of a hat.

If you've actually read that post you'd have noticed that the author is misrepresenting her assumptions as facts by repurposing out of context comments.

The person she was quoting wasn't even speaking about Reader nor was he granting her an interview (the author doesn't specify in what context did she hear all that) it was just another serving of the generic "news in the mobile era" spiel.