I think they are just made up of a bunch of amateur wannabe journalists who have no idea what they are doing, similar to most of the other people that write news about Bitcoin.
Ha. I think you're probably right. Most of them just post any old crap to get some hits.
I wouldn't be surprised if WC contacted the author outside of the site to pay her to write the article.
Probably didn't pay but might have contacted them with the thread and since they're desperate they'll write up anything.