Talking to a journalist is like talking to the police. They have a specific agenda and standard for publishing that doesn’t necessarily align with telling a sto

Talking to a journalist is like talking to the police. They have a specific agenda and standard for publishing that doesn’t necessarily align with telling a story as you perceive it. You have to be able to manipulate them, which is best left to professionals. A lesson that I have seen learned the hard way. The reason why celebrities say "No comment" is that it can't be misquoted. My favorite example of a deliberate journalistic misquote is that my mother was on a phone with a journalist and used a phrase starting with, "It is not that I..." It appeared in print as, "It is...that I..." Yes, the word "not" was replaced with "..." to reverse the meaning of what she said so that she would look bad.