What makes a software failure a page-one story?

摘要

As I was pondering topics for an editorial, I began to scan some on-line newspapers for good stories that describe horrible software failures. Alas, I found no good stories in that day's New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, etc. Then I thought that surely the San Jose Mercury News would have news on some awful software glitch, but I had no such luck. Perhaps our software was not giving us problems this week, or perhaps the media is so used to hearing about software problems that they are no longer newsworthy.