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I agree. I don't think this great publicity, but I don't think that it is too actively bad particularly given the intended audience (this is the paper Sex and the City is based on I expect that the have a relatively pro-poly attitude). Furthermore, I think the negative aspects are due to the unfortunate(from our perspective) fact that the article was about the NY group as a tribe/lifestyle than about the singularity or rationality per se, and not the result of the kind of malice that "hatchet job" usually implies.
Many of the people mentioned are not in the New York group currently; they're in Berkeley. However, New York media stereotypically see the world as revolving around New York.
It seems to me that some of the biggest tension between this article and the way LWers see ourselves is that the article is about people and their human quirks (living arrangements, sexual habits, and physical behavior), with the ideas presented as irrelevant eccentricities. Whereas within the LW-space, the ideas are pretty important. It's like an article about Nikola Tesla that focuses on his affection for pigeons.
I think you're right. Maybe if LW's ideas bore more fruit in the external world, journalists would give them more airtime compared to gossip...