Dirk asks the questions everybody wants to know the answers to, but doesn't have the gall to ask. Yet, people ream him for it. I don't always agree with his decision making, but it's definitely better than the love fest most of the Husker media has towards him.
They don't ream him for asking those questions. They ream him for the way he does it and the fact that they are "slanted" to fit the story he wants to write rather than what the story is.