Graham Morrison
A longtime Linux journalist, former editor of Linux Format and co-founder of Linux Voice, who now writes technical documentation for Canonical covering MAAS, Ju...
“The thing that really worries me about that kind of ignorance is that I'm assuming they're just as ignorant about every single news story they report on. It's just that I'm even more ignorant than them.”
Late Night Linux · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · November 2026
Context
The hosts were mocking mainstream tech reporters who covered a major PHP vulnerability and admitted they had never heard of PHP, which runs a large part of the web. Graham suspects the same gap applies to every story those reporters cover.
Transcript
Yeah, but it's a bit like which type of typhoon would you rather get hit by a force 10 or a force nine? Like at that point, it's pretty fucking scary, no matter what.
…mainstream, you know, BBC news and all the rest of it to see the reporters like admitting, you know, the fucking tech correspondents, oh, I'd never heard of PHP before, but it turns out it runs half the internet. Yeah. Like, how do you get to be a tech reporter and not at least know what PHP is?
The thing that really worries me about that kind of ignorance is that I'm assuming they're just as ignorant about every single news story they report on. It's just that I'm even more ignorant than them.
Well, yeah. Because like, I feel like I could be a tech reporter for the BBC.
Yeah,
of course.
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