It's practically a resume cover letter. People don't deserve to be told something is journalism when it is an advertisement. I'm not sure why you would even want to defend something like this, let alone be a lackey for someone else's rules.

No one was told this is journalism. It's a post on a VC's blog! Sometimes, even those are interesting.

I honestly appreciate tl;dr comments like GP's. They end up saving me a lot of clicks/time, and they're a major part of the value I get from HN (especially when it comes to topics I don't know much about myself).