I think the difference is in how the two industries she are comparing here fundamentally treat mistakes. In journalism, you might not get fired immediately for

I think the difference is in how the two industries she are comparing here fundamentally treat mistakes. In journalism, you might not get fired immediately for a mistake like that but certainly you're going to get reprimanded and told how unacceptable that is. Your company is absolutely going to run a correction at the first opportunity they get. Any mistake is treated as a major embarrassment by staff of a respectable news company. The viewers/readers might not notice/care but the company does. This is totally not how things work in tech though. First of all there are a lot more mistakes/bugs, and because of that how bugs are handled is completely different. If you're not doing something where lives/money are at stake, it's ok to release with bugs so long as they aren't showstoppers. When I write something that has a bug in it, I don't even get talked to. We just write it up and toss it in the list with all the other bugs. There are of course situations in both industries where things are different but I think in general there is definitely a major difference in how tech treats mistakes as compare to how pretty much every other industry.