I really dislike reporters with biased/loaded questions.
I was once on the operating side of a site that was controversial to several traditional/entrenched industries, but we were just a small little flea to them and they ignored us (for those that even noticed). Until a lovely blogger happened upon our site and decided to write a story about how innovative we were. All of a sudden we started getting C&D letters from very large firms that had tenuous (but expensive to litigate) claims against us. Turned out the bloody blogger had gone around asking loaded questions to them all about how we were undermining the industries' business model and what they planned to do about it. Once it was put to them in that way, we were no longer an annoying flea but a blood-sucking tick that needed burned. We had to shutdown because of that. :(
I can forgive uninformed people inadvertently asking loaded questions, because it takes practice and effort to be unbiased. However, it is inexcusable for the media to do so (even if it is par for the course).
I was once on the operating side of a site that was controversial to several traditional/entrenched industries, but we were just a small little flea to them and they ignored us (for those that even noticed). Until a lovely blogger happened upon our site and decided to write a story about how innovative we were. All of a sudden we started getting C&D letters from very large firms that had tenuous (but expensive to litigate) claims against us. Turned out the bloody blogger had gone around asking loaded questions to them all about how we were undermining the industries' business model and what they planned to do about it. Once it was put to them in that way, we were no longer an annoying flea but a blood-sucking tick that needed burned. We had to shutdown because of that. :(
I can forgive uninformed people inadvertently asking loaded questions, because it takes practice and effort to be unbiased. However, it is inexcusable for the media to do so (even if it is par for the course).