An Irish Sunday newspaper has increased the profile of the TechTV programme and in the process accidentally discovered Hackwatch. The Sunday Business Post, a newspaper aimed at business people moreso than the general public covered the emerging story of the TechTv message board. The title of the article was "E-mail Community Rails Against 'TechTV'. It was written by John Dunne, the editor of the paper's monthly Computers In Business supplement.

The article had apparently started out covering the TechTv message board and the reaction of what the newspaper called the "E-mail Community" to the programme. It was a welcome change from the normally sedate prose of the articles. One of the first to be quoted in the piece was Paul Kane. Though later in the article, the quotations became somewhat inaccurate.

For a story about the TechTv website, it did seem to spend a lot of time dealing with a particular thread started by a character with a rather dubious name of Peter Paranoid. The thread, "Stop Whinging John McCormac" was started by this character and became a flame war. One of the funniest things was the way that a usually accurate newspaper managed to screw up a particular quotation about the HackWatch site. According to the paper, Peter Paranoid had called HackWatch "a den of IT pseudo-journalism. However in reality the quotation was "den of IT iniquity and pseudo-journalism". The fact that this character Dunne had limited HackWatch to just IT iniquity was clear evidence of cluelessness.

The article followed one in the previous week's issue which dealt with the Information Society Commission and how they funded TechTv. In reality that article was little more than a puff piece for the chairman of the Infoscom and sought to give credibility to something that was quite unbelievable. The TechTv programme was only barely mentioned. This was rather strange considering that the Infoscom funded the programme. When HackWatch asked how much they had sunk into the programme, it was claimed that that matter was confidential. So much for open government!