I was appalled by the BBC article " Windows bug 'behind Skype crash' ". The title seems to suggest that Windows operating system has a bug and that was exposed by Skype software and is one of the reasons behind the recent Skype outages.
When you look inside the article, the summary becomes, "Server overloads and a bug in Skype for Windows caused the two-day outage for the net phone firm."
Shame on you, BBC. There has been a rise in number of cases, where the articles tend to gloss over technical facts and results in such incoherent sentences. I was under the impression that in order to become a journalist in the IT arena, you need to have an IT background in addition to the generic journalism background. I hope this indeed becomes the case in the future. How bad it'd be if Jeremy Clarkson knew nothing about cars and continues to present TopGear (notwithstanding many people think this is the case :) )
1 comments:
I like the last sentence.
What BBC has been doing now has been a norm with other news agencies for a loong time.
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