You've all discovered how we can be misrepresented in the press. Sometimes it's because the reporter was not taking careful/correct notes, sometimes it's because the reporter/news organisation has an axe to grind, sometimes it's plain old incompetence. I write my own news releases and usually (Usually!) the story is much closer to the truth.
Of course -- you can't do this for something like a magazine that has sent a reporter, or a film/video crew, but maybe they'd let you hand them a prepared release when they're doing their interviews and recordings. If you can do that -- hand them some information with the facts all correct -- at least MAYBE the number of mistakes in their article or video will be smaller.
I stress maybe -- becuase while the last article I wrote for the hometown newspaper was good, they still farkled the caption for the photo that I included. I wrote the caption for the photo -- but when it was printed they changed my speed from "Wennerberg has ridden this bike to speeds over 195 mph" to "Wennerberg has ridden this bike to speeds over 240 mph." Dang -- I wish it were so.
Back to the subject -- if you know they're on the way to interview you, try to have a handout for them stating your side of the story in a factual and believeable manner. They might even use it.
