{"id":261,"date":"2006-05-08T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T12:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=261"},"modified":"2006-05-24T23:00:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T22:00:38","slug":"mindless-it-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Mindless reporting, Scare Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost as if no one in the Media, or for that matter, any reporter, makes any connections with the facts. As an example: <\/p>\n<p>Connecting these two articles, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=31534\">Mac OS vulnerabilities increased 200 percent McAfee rains on Apple&#8217;s smug parade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and again <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2002979390_btdownload08.html\">Cold water thrown on Apple TV claim<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLeave it to <b>McAfee<\/b> to rain on those new television commercials Apple Computer is running about its virus-free computing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and this article?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Report+Vista+to+hit+antispyware,+firewall+markets\/2100-1029_3-6069464.html\">Vista to hit anti-spyware, firewall markets<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNew security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate antispyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Spyware-killing+Vista+could+take+out+rivals\/2100-1029_3-6050733.html\">Spyware-killing Vista could take out rivals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first two articles, while feeding on themselves, never makes the connection that McAfee, or for that matter any anti-virus company is facing elimination at the hands of the Microsoft Monopoly Monster. And that for them to survive they, like President Bush, must find a new enemy, and a new platform that needs their protection. It has very little to do with Apple needing virus protection. And everything to do with scare tactics as a marketing tool.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost as if no one in the Media, or for that matter, any reporter, makes any connections with the facts. As an example: Connecting these two articles, Mac OS vulnerabilities increased 200 percent McAfee rains on Apple&#8217;s smug parade<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=261\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mindless reporting, Scare Tactics<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,4,27,5,16,20,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-general-it-issues","category-history","category-honesty","category-mac","category-microsoft","category-myths","category-psychology","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}