I honestly find plenty of flaws with what he's written, but I do think this Digital Foundry Witch Hunt is a little immature. We can intelligently call him out without resorting to smear campaigning a professional's 15+ year career in the tech industry.
Oh and nib I<3u. Ramadan Mubarak (just had Iftar here in Pakistan)
Ramadan Kareem to you too dude.
And I agree with you to a degree, but reputations are everything in this industry, and people don't forget. You keep making the same mistakes or presenting the same skew over and over and over, and you earn a reputation for it. That's exactly what has happened to Leadbetter, and to countless other journo's like Shane from 1UP early days (who funnily enough is working at Sony now no?) and many others.