Just because you've heard of this "logical fallacy" thing doesn't mean you should beat people over the head with it.

That one is called "Ad Hominem."

But skimping on doing it properly may make future versions harder to ship.

Yes, that's true, but that's a risk that the person who owns the software needs to consider. That owner is almost certainly not the developer and likely not their manager, either.

allows the programmer to take the needed time to test, rewrite, test, rewrite...

Real developers ship. You are working for a business; you are not doing an academic study.

The sheer number of bugs I see in every one of their releases means they dont[sic] care about good code

And here we have another problem. You think that good or elegant code means bug-free. It doesn't. There's lots of pretty code out there that doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

(& I've been coding as a pro since 1994)

I can tell by your syntax that you learned to code in the early 90s....

But the Fox tabloid is, right?

Hell no. What, out of my post, would make any reasonable person infer that? WTF is wrong with you?

there are other examples than MJ.

Then use those.

CEO Says One Laptop Per Child Project Has Achieved Its Goals

and

OLPC chairman and CEO Rodrigo Arboleda says the organization has achieved many of its goals

are not equivalent. The first implies that ALL goals have been achieved, while the second makes it clear that some have not. Terrible headline.

The real problem is the destruction of the electrical grid that would result.

Um, also satellites, which power much of our communications and have also caused most of us to throw away paper maps.