Editorial Fail

Fox News, amazing reporter that it is, has apparently fired all of their editors and proof readers. Well, at least for their technical reports.

Reporting on Google Latitude, an add-on to Google’s own Maps service, Fox forwarded an AP article on the mobile aspect of the new technology. Unfortunately, I doubt anyone will find the first mobile device they list supporting the software: T-1 Mobile phones running on Google’s Android software. Excuse me? It sounds like the Terminators made a cell phone and it could kill a small dog.

Granted, it’s not too hard to figure out what phone they were intending to reference, I own one, so I can’t come down too hard on the writer, but it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that there isn’t a cellular company called “T-1 Mobile” and there isn’t a phone called a “T-1″.

Sorry, Fox News, leave the technical reporting to TechCrunch, Gizmodo, et. al.; they actually hire people who know what the hell they’re talking about.