> Also true of non-tech-adjacent reporters!

It's true for everyone. Over the years, I've been on the business end of several "tech outrage" stories that made the headlines on HN, and over time, became a sort of IT canon: "company X did something really bad".

And they all had the same origin: a party with an ax to grind latched onto a fairly boring story, distorted the facts to tell a narrative, and that narrative "clicked" with everyone else because it confirmed their preexisting biases.

It doesn't mean that there are no companies that are truly evil or incompetent, but I'd wager is <50% of the ones that get raked over the coals here and elsewhere.