Quoting Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
On 10/12/2007, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I once responded to one of their articles on Wikipedia and they basically picked individual words from my comment and put them together (with lots of "..." inbetween) to make it seem that I'd said something very different to what I actually said. That is *not* reputable journalism.
If that is so, you could try reporting them to the press complaints commission:
Not worth it. I'm not sure they quite crossed the line into something I could get the PCC to do anything about. The facts of what I said were pretty much correctly reported, it was the tone that they completely changed. I took care to make sure I was very polite and professional and suggested that they might like to consider correcting the mistakes in their story. They turned it into a very unprofessional demand that they correct the mistakes, which they then proceeded to claim was hypocritical because of all the mistakes in Wikipedia.
Sufficient change of tone may be enough for the PCC. I'd recommend doing it. It's their job to decide whether or not it was enough of a problem to merit attention.