I feel like we didn't learn a lot about the TFA author in this comment, but more about a pet concern of yours?
The author critiques the cliches, misinformation, wrong ideas, and romantization journalists use when writing about Africa.
These are not merely some "opinions they disagree with", these are wrong and lazy writing, and it's a bad public service (they are getting millions of people the wrong ideas about a place). It surely deserves to be critiqued.
You are absolutely correct that it does deserve to be critiqued, and it is important to do so.
What makes me feel weird about the style however is there aren't any example of this, so if a reader does not know the field well of the common tropes, it feels like the author is just throwing together opinions people could possess (let's say opinions on how to write an Article about Africa), and then promote anger over how such people could exist.
The author critiques the cliches, misinformation, wrong ideas, and romantization journalists use when writing about Africa.
These are not merely some "opinions they disagree with", these are wrong and lazy writing, and it's a bad public service (they are getting millions of people the wrong ideas about a place). It surely deserves to be critiqued.