I think you are given to much credit to Charlie for his intentions. If he was a journalist he would write like one.

Charlie wants to get as many hits as possible. This is a man who will dress in a bunny suit at a convention. Who will hand out pamplets which try to humiliate the company that is having a function there. Charlie tries to write something that will provoke as much of a reaction as possible. Charlie isn't conservative in his writing because it helps get hits. It makes him look wrong alot of the time, but in this day and age, you don't get hits with vague uninteresting information. You do it by going out a limb and saying hard numbers(even those it might make you look like a fool in the end).

Charlie is trying his best to get people to notice him and is an attention whore. It probably why he started his own website. He will do something that demeans him just so he can get more people to read his stuff or listen to him.