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I really don't see it as much of a hatchet job. It reads to me like "these people are a bit strange, but interesting", which I have trouble taking offense at. Certainly it picks and chooses the "interesting" stuff, but it doesn't strike me as particular worse than normal human interest stories (judging by the very limited sample of news articles that I have close personal knowledge of the subjects of).
I suspect if this was actually a hatchet job (as in, the reporter really was intentionally trying to make LW look bad, or really didn't like someone), it would be a lot worse.
Calling it a hatchet job seems... disingenuous. Especially given that I don't see many specific objections being raised. Sure, it could be better, and it's not something an insider would have written. But neither of those surprises me, based on what I know about journalists and news articles.
A hatchet job implies destruction as the goal. Usually the target would be someone or something the author finds threatening or dangerous. Targets that are perceived as legitimate or powerful get hack jobs. This was just pure mockery.