I've not been in the paper myself, but many of my friends have, and the first thing they always point out is how badly the paper misquoted them. I always expec

I've not been in the paper myself, but many of my friends have, and the first thing they always point out is how badly the paper misquoted them. I always expected the things I read in quotation marks to be quotations, and it was surprising to find out that's rarely the case. A journalist's idea of quotation is actually to take the gist of what you said, put it in new words, and then put it back in your mouth.