"Demand is growing for people who know specialized programming languages like Ruby on Rails and AJAX"
So clearly clueful recruitment is not a skill in demand.
There are lots of explanations that come to my mind before I'd assume he's clueless.
It probably sounded like:
Interviewer: So what, uh, do you see as the big, you know, trends in the coming year? In the industry?
Interviewee: Well, I think, you know, there's something of a t-trend towards specialization.
Interviewer: You mean in programming lang--
Interviewee: Exactly. Languages, specialized techniques, you know, Rails, AJAX, all that jazz.
The first time I talked to a reporter, the reporter swapped my descriptions of opportunities and threats, so I looked like I had absolutely no understanding of the market at all. After that, I started taking "quotes" with a much larger grain of salt.