Anyone who did 10 minutes of research (or went to the "Hacker" wikipedia page) would know that the word "hacker" means a very different thing within the technol

Anyone who did 10 minutes of research (or went to the "Hacker" wikipedia page) would know that the word "hacker" means a very different thing within the technology community than outside of it, yet I see article after article feigning ignorance to this. Is it just to manufacture controversy - is that what our media has become?