Does anybody have any good examples of how the media have got IT issues either wrong or technically incorrect?
When that bloke sued Demon for libel, the quantity of news services who got 'newsgroups' and 'chat rooms' mixed-up was incredible. Nicky Campbell on Radio Five Live even organised a phone debate about the matter, only to have the first caller point out angrilly that it was solely a Usenet issue. I do hope that the MP raising the matter in the House of Commons knows the difference.

Many journalists and politicians are clueless, so they work on a 'stamp it out first, ask questions later' basis.
Media getting IT issues wrong? How about The Sun waging war on the Internet as a source for porn a few years ago, then launching its own ISP shortly afterwards. Clever.

On some kind of Changing Rooms-program last night, they did-up a teenagers' bedroom. They even gave her a cutting edge PC -- "That's the fastest PC around," the bloke said, "It's a Pentium 2".
Hmmm. Pentium III anybody? Or even AMD Athlon?
I am seriously considering a website to record when the media get technology wrong -- a kind of pedantic and techy Dennis Norden. Here are my favourites so far:
In Linda La Plante's net-drama on Channel 4 (I've forgotten the name and indeed most of the program details), they had full-quality video and audio over a dial-up Internet connection! Sounds great and only around five years too early.
In Bugs, that bastion of high-tech probity, Ros once boasted that their new supercomputer -- the kind that's supposed to be able to hack 128-bit encryption in seconds -- was the best in the UK. "It's fully MMX compatible," she said. Intel will be please to hear this.