The Press Always Gets it Wrong – CNBC

CNBC anchor Mellisa Lee interviewed two computer security experts shortly after Microsoft released Windows Vista. The thrust of the story was that Internet Explorer 7 was supposed to plug some security holes which had been plaguing Windows users. The security experts said this was not the case.

During the segment it became painfully obvious that Lee was unable to distinguish the difference between a browser such as Internet Explorer, and an operating system such as Windows Vista.

To their credit the experts did not try to correct Ms. Lee’s mistakes and they just continued the interview as if nothing had gone wrong.

Moral of this story – the journalist must always prepare for the assignment.

Posted by The GNUinator