I'm convinced this is true for most mainstream news reports on even slightly technical topics. It's not just IT - if you talk to people in other disciplines you

I'm convinced this is true for most mainstream news reports on even slightly technical topics. It's not just IT - if you talk to people in other disciplines you get the same response. I think you could discount a little bit of it as experts being overly picky and journalists having to bring the topic to the masses, but it's often much worse than that.