[Rebelbase]

""This was something else, something new and fundamentally frightening," Mapes writes. "I had never seen this kind of response to any story."

Translation: I am dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to to the internet.

[NathanR]

Actually, she was dumb as a box of rocks about the tools of her trade. Things like printing presses, typewriters, computer printers (both laserjet and impact), desktop publishing, MS Word, and so on. That is why she was blindsided.

She probably dictates to a secretary and edits using a red pen as well.