I don't see her in this article at all... she's simply the conduit through which the boy's quotes got to me. I don't intend on reading her interpretation of their words... but the few stories she shared in the interview, and direct quotes from the boys themselves, were enough to hit me hard in the heart.
You're seeing and reacting to the quotes that were cherry-picked to drive home her narrative. It is literally the definition of yellow journalism.
Kids are always in moral peril, boys are always entirely too sexually charged, girls are always entirely too lacking in confidence, media is always to blame and no one is ever thinking of the children Shit changed ridiculously for kids growing up the minute Best Buy had modems for sale. But you can't write a book about children and their interactions with technology without having a clue or two. Wander around interviewing kids to spook their parents? You can change culture without having to justify a thing.