The paper that ran this article is not exactly a bastion of fine journalism (although what "fine journalism is these days is anybody's guess). I didn't expect any hard-hitting follow up questions, and the writer didn't disappoint. That being said, the blog angle makes this article that much more infuriating.
The attempt to re-write one girl's historical account of the 1967 war is founded upon defaming her and, amid much denigration and hyperbole, changing the subject to another war in 2004 via a blog.
The old man is gonna lose this one. They ought to call his bluff.