The point of their article is the same whether the people its talking about wear gartels and visit rebbes, or wear bent down hats and say tachanun between Isru Chag Shavuos and 12 Sivan.
& these secular newspapers also label Jews who recite Hallel on Yom ha’Atzmaut verses Jews who recite Tachnun on Yom ha’Atzmaut, into 1 category.