[graemep]

My experience of being quoted by respected news organisations (Reuters and the BBC) is that quotes will be random and out of context, or just made up (I did get an apology from the BBC for the latter and they removed it from their website).

It does not even need to be a particular story. Experts in almost every field complain about how bad coverage of their field is, and you can extrapolate to coverage being bad in general. What Michael Crichton dubbed Gell_Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...

I would also add knowing a country that gets covered in the news but which is not important enough to be prominent (Sri Lanka in my case) also soon shows you the media are sloppy and make huge mistakes and write with little understanding.