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I was recently beaten down by an interview with a local tech reporter, who twisted my words and put words in my mouth. She wrote a 300-word article with so many
by ahoyhere 15y ago
I was recently beaten down by an interview with a local tech reporter, who twisted my words and put words in my mouth. She wrote a 300-word article with so many breathtaking falsehoods or near-falsehoods that I just had to shake my head and laugh.
She wrote that I "admitted to having a feminine touch" in the way my husband & I teach our JavaScript workshops, when I did no such thing, instead spending over an hour saying, repeatedly, "it's got nothing to do with the fact that I'm a woman," "it's irrelevant," "the people I learned from are all men, with the exception of Kathy Sierra," etc.
So, despite the fact that I think Arrington is an arrogant (and awesomely alliterative) asshole, I can see exactly how this could happen, and would totally believe that he was misused and misquoted in this instance.
Which sucks, for everyone.
- chc 15y agoIt really can get ridiculous. A reporter once attributed to one of my Japanese friends a sentence she couldn't even understand because of the vocabulary and complex grammatical structure. When that sort of thing happens, I suspect that the writer literally wrote the story before doing the reporting and then made minor modifications afterward.