[Swordmaker]

Seriously, WTF? Are journalists now so completely ignorant of the language that they can't tell software from the company who makes it?

I examined your rant to see if I could find the root of your problem and have discerned what it is. You have made a basic mistake.

You assumed that "journalists" were educated in anything other than journalism. . . that journalists understand what they are writing about.

That's akin to assuming that a modern Liberal teacher understands the subject they are expected to teach!

My dear Freepfriend, that is NOT at all the purpose of getting a journalism or education degree. . . the purpose of each of those degrees is supposedly to learn how to do those things, not at all about learning anything about WHAT they are going to with do them, or the subjects they are going to write about or teach!

[dayglored]

Ah, my FRiend, you are dead right.

Silly me, what was I thinking -- that a journalist could be expected to differentiate between a tire and a wheel, between a motor and an engine, between a software product and a software company, between their a$$ and a hole in the ground....

Thank you for setting me straight. :-)