The Gizmodo piece was better journalism than the nytimes or bbc articles which regurgitated Cloudfare's over the top PR uncritically.

I disagree. Calling the story a straight-up lie was a mistake, and link bait to boot. I thought Biddle failed to understand what the risk to "The Internet" truly was, and how an attack like this (based on a known architecture vulnerability), if repeated or made more common or effective, could cripple a tier 1 provider and cause serious routing issues, among other things.

NYTimes especially has been hyping up cyberattacks and cyberwarfare a lot lately.

Better, but still a long way before it's factually correct.

In all fairness, the Gizmodo article was pretty well researched and informative. It was more like an anti-hype article - because that's what the headlines were. Interesting things did happen, but the internet was not "in danger" of being down.