Most people in the press, and their consumers, expect computers to be rebooted on a regular basis. "Have you tried turning it off and on again" isn't just a line from the IT Crowd, it's been the way of the PC world for decades.

Sure, but this is like describing a scenario where automobile brakes are randomly spontaneously being applied as “cars are being parked more often than usual.”

It highlights the lack of computer literacy in the population at large that they can get away with saying something like this (which makes it seem not as bad as it actually is)