How is this news? (Score 2, Insightful)

This post links to a thread on the Apple discussion boards with 11 posts (at the time that I wrote this) in it. How exactly is this a news article?

How does a thread with 11 posts become generalized on Slashdot as iTunes for the PC is breaking all 5gb iPods?

There is something known as journalistic integrity, one piece of which involves not misrepresenting or overstating a single piece of information.