It’s 2010 and old media people are stil…

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Art Stone

It’s 2010 and old media people are still computer illiterates. See how many factual errors and pieces of bad advice you see in this story:
http://www.winknews.com/news/local/89570017.html

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4 Responses to It’s 2010 and old media people are stil…

  1. jmyrlefuller says:
    March 31, 2010 at 6:16 am

    …wow. On one hand, I’m astonished that one can be so oblivious to the difference between a willing phishing attempt and an outright hack. Antivirus software will not protect you from that.

    On the other hand, look at this reporter’s background: among her former jobs include fashion designer and Cigar Dave dame. That’s not exactly a good journalistic background. A quick look indicates most of the other station’s hires aren’t quite so bad, but I have to wonder how she got through the cracks. Sexism, perhaps?

    • Art Stone says:
      March 31, 2010 at 12:29 pm

      This isn’t an “error”, but an observation…. the phishing email purporting to be from hotmail asked her to enter her email address. Never underestimate how little people think about what they do…

    • Art Stone says:
      March 31, 2010 at 2:19 pm

      I had only read the article – I hadn’t looked at the video or read her background. Has any TV station yet tried doing local news with the blond women in bikinis or would that be going too far?

      Naked News up in Canada sort of does that, but 1) it’s on the Internet and 2) they’re in Canada. I was always amused at how seriously they took their “work”

  2. blsumner says:
    March 31, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    WOW. People should really be smarter than the equipment that they work with, I wonder if there might be some type of Darwin Award for this woman.

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