Subject of a news story?

Dublin's Finest

Just wondered if anyone here has ever been the subject (directly or indirectly) of a news story? If yes, what were your perceptions of the whole experience?

chekov

Dublin's Finest wrote:

Just wondered if anyone here has ever been the subject (directly or indirectly) of a news story? If yes, what were your perceptions of the whole experience?

Several articles have been written partially about me, things that I've said or things that I've been (mis)represented as being a spokesperson for. From memory, here's my characterisation of the various places that they've appeared:

Irish Times: mostly okay, but one bizzare misquote that made me sound like a fanatical idiot
Mail On Sunday/IOS: malicious fabrication, full of downright lies, but also had a fair sprinkling of plain old shoddiness, with all sorts of irrelevant details erroneously reported for no apparent reason. http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=63361
Sunday Business Post: can't remember anything wrong with it, not particularly laudatory but not hostile either.
Phoenix: slightly piss-taking, not particularly hostile but very sloppy with all sorts of details slightly wrong (even though I narrated them to them). Managed to piss off my mum no end though with what she considered to be a very inaccurate portrayal of my father (he died when I was too young to remember much about him, so I didn't have much to say about him).
Sindo: simple list of insults, read like something a 14 year old would write on a bulletin board, used the word "headwank".

As an example of the casual sloppiness that I've come to expect, my age has been quoted 3 or 4 times, it's never been accurate to within 3 years. Nobody ever asked me my age. :rolleyes:

Dublin's Finest

It's always the simples details that grate people off the most. In reporting the footbal results a few years back the local paper would always mispel my name. Such a pisser.

I suppose the stories you mention were more or less responses to things that you have written.

santosubito

The Irish Times did a piece and mentioned me in it, about four years ago. They got the bit about me completely wrong and didn't even contact me to verify the stuff.
That wretched Spike in the Mail also did a thing about me a few monts ago. Again, completely wrong. The Times made a mistake, which happens. Spike was just nasty.

monument

"Spike was just nasty"

Nothing new there.