The Guardian's bike blog

tibbly -
Are you always this grouchy? These sorts of bikes might be familiar to LFGSS regulars, but the Guardian blog is, very deliberately, aimed at a more general audience. It's perhaps not your place to decide what is or isn't interesting for them. I'm also not sure how precisely I've contributed to any "shitty stereotypes". The overriding message of the blog post was that anything which gets people riding is a good thing. How's that so controversial?

Not "anything that gets people riding" is good. The bikes aren't reliably safe. For someone completely new to cycling they would be scared away and even less likely to ride again. As mentioned - Charge are a british company producing many decent OTP bikes as generally low prices. From what I've seen the bikes are well made and reliable.
Yes, a general readership won't be as informed as we are but as a national paper you should be promoting safe stuff and pointing out the differences between good and bad. Maybe it would be more interesting for your readership (which includes me) to read about these companies exploiting trends.