Memo to the U.S. News Media – know what you’re talking about.

Memo to the U.S. News Media – at least have a basic understanding of the story you are attempting to report on.  Simple enough?

I’ve been listening to many of these idiots describing the recent DDOS attacks against various government systems as security breaches of those systems. In this case, these attacks are NOT a security breach of the target systems. They are Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack, not a freakin’ security breach!

Calling these attacks a cyber attack is okay, but it’s factually incorrect to label them as a “security breach.” Many of the attacking systems may have been breached, but the targets have not been breached. Anyone on the internet can be targeted by these types of attacks.

For our wonderful folks in the news media, please get the facts and at least have a basic understanding of what you’re reporting on.  It’s no wonder why we can not have a reasonable and fact based discussion of the many serious topics/issues we face today like Global Warming, Health Care, real economic stimulus, and so on. No wonder why our country is in such a pickle. We can’t make fact based decisions and choices when we don’t get the facts.

While there are some journalists trying to do right by their profession, overall the American News Media has failed this country miserably. Be journalists for a change! Have a basic understanding of that which you cover. Report the facts as facts. Report opinion and speculation as just that and refrain from it to begin with. If you want to speculate and be a pundit, get a talk radio show. Ask the tough questions of both sides of an argument and demand answers. Let the viewers/readers/listeners make their own choices based upon facts, not fiction and/or opinion/agendas presented as facts.