and this person is a journalist?????

I know you probably already know the answer to that question, but let me tell you a story.
When I was a kid we had a front porch with two wooden, white rocking chairs. I took colored magic markers and drew little make-believe buttons on the arms of the rocking chairs. One was for phasers. One was for photon torpedoes. One was for warp drive. I would pretend that the front porch was the USS Enterprise and that the rocking chair was the captain's chair. Naturally, I pretended to by Captain Kirk. I even called myself Captain Kirk, but sadly, I was only Captain Kirk in my naive young imagination.
Let's look at some points…
1. I didn't get paid for doing what I did.
2. I didn't really accomplish much by doing what I did.
3. Anyone that watched would think it was funny/strange.
4. I was pretending to be something that I was definitely not: Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
Did you notice that you could change the last six words of point four and it would make the entire list fit a certain know-everything, egotistical, condescending windbag?
Thankfully I finally grew up. I realized that human interstellar space travel probably would never occur in my lifetime. That thoughts of such were just scifi dreams. That I was really and truly NOT Captain Kirk and would never be Captain Kirk. It was at this point that I realized that I was Batman.
Unfortunately, just saying that you're something does not make it so. As proof of that statement I know of a group the proclaims themselves to be the smartest people on the entire planet while the sane people on the planet view them as idiotic laughing stock.