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What is a topic you know a lot about that the media often gets terribly wrong? (lemmies.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Except politics of course. We all know everyone else is wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Electronic product development. Apple releases a iPhone every year, so people think you can start developing a new phone in September and ship 100M of them the following September.

Really became a problem with Kickstarter reporting where some bullshit project would ask for a puny $50k to develop and ship a tiny wrist mounted supercomputer phone and promise to ship in six months, and tech blogs would eat that shit up without an ounce of skepticism.

I even wrote a blog about it