I searched with 'wordpress' in Google News last night, and the v3.6 story barely made the first page of returns; a single hit.

The dominant story is an investigation showing that 20% of plugins have "security issues" or "vulnerabilities".

This story is plainly being played as 'Those plugins that we can hang around the neck of WordPress like a dead albatross'.

In fact, the less inhibited just go right ahead and write it up as, 'See? WordPress is a badie'! That the issue (uh, such as it actually may be) is with plugins that are written by 100s or 1,000s of different volunteers, is mentioned down in the fine-print somewhere, if anywhere.
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Now remember, we're the Media, and we're frightened of the Internet. And it's not paranoia, when your industry - not to say your own job & erstwhile pension - are going the way of the ol'-time Rust Belt ... which was a natural & logic thing, in our view, and a testament of our personal vision of Progress, of course! But anyway...

Anything that can be posed as an empowerment, enabler or popularizer of the dreaded Internet (for which we can blame the possible purchase & total desecration of Our Beloved Los Angeles Times by the filthy mega-billionaire Tea Partying Obama-opposer Koch Bros! ... is fair game. Lock, load, and fire at will.

WordPress makes the Internet much more accessible to the Masses, and it has really given them (omg!) an enhanced publishing capability of their own (gag)! The power of the Press should be reserved only to ourselves! And those who's bias & prejudices we adore and blatantly promote in a mockery of our own Journalistic Principles.

So come on now people ... you know what to do. Get in there in and dig for those security thingies. Stretch the definition of security to fit our goal, leave the nature of any issue vague and write it up like a Hot Line to Osama bin Laden!