Blaming the computer
Sir, — Your front-page report of a “computer error” in "The Press” on February 17 and two further references to “computer errors” and “computer mistakes” is yet another case of unnecessary sensationalism in newspaper headlines, a feature for which “The Press” is not normally noted. The case of the incorrectly “failed” School Certificate candidates is quite clearly a departmental bungle due to a combination of incompetent computer programming and
inadequate management supervision. Why must . “The Press” apparently join the Chairman of the Examination Board, Mr P. W. Boag, in making the computer the scapegoat? — Yours, etc., MICHAEL B. JAMESON. February 21, 1977.
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Press, 24 February 1977, Page 16
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