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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'm good friends with a high level school administrator. She did an interview with a local reporter who asked her very leading questions trying to get her to say the school was mad at the city government. They weren't and she didn't take the bait, he started to get mad at her and twisted the story to make his 'point' anyways. She was basiclly screwed in that he is a well known reporter who has been around for years and pissing him off will only make it worse next time.
She ended up having to tell the city council that the story wasn't true, but a major head ache none the less.
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Oh, that happens ALL THE TIME. My dad's a high school principal and I can't tell you the number of times his words have been twisted to suit a reporter's ends. The local paper where my parents live is so bad they call it the "weekly fishwrap" because they write horrible stories so often and only get the truth about 15% of the time. Papers aren't the only ones who do it, either: television news is just as bad. Every time my dad has been interviewed by the news it has never turned out well. People just don't want to hear the truth it seems.
Notably, my father has appeared in national media
in a comic featured in Mother Jones magazine some years ago.