If how I feel about this as a programmer is any indicator, I dread to imagine how worldly wise, politically experienced folks feel when reading political discussions on sites like Reddit or HN :-) (No, I'm neither of those things!)
A lot of that is because the reporters, not being experts themselves, just don't have the contextual knowledge to grasp the implications of what they come across in their investigation. Unimportant details get played up, subtleties are completely lost, and things with similar names get conflated.
And yet, they still trust the news to be accurate with regards to everything else :(
Fox Business is just trying to explain GitHub to its audience, which is approximately the same as the CNBC audience or the audience of any other business network. I don't see anyone making fun of the GitHub CEO for explaining his product as the 'electricity' of today's tech-based companies.