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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Free Publicity - Connecting Reporters and News Sources - Help a Reporter Out

Instead of complaining, contribute. Put your bit of expertise into the mix, so that reporters/journalists can use it, instead of having to make stuff up.

If no one GIVES them the right info, they can't ever be expected to have it on hand.

Wait, so we are supposed to teach the media what they are supposed to be informing us about, having researched their story carefully? Basically they want us to do their jobs? Well, I'd be happy to when they give me a nice cut of their salary.

We already have a repository of common knowledge. It's called wikipedia. A 10 second google search and click of the first result would yield all that they would need to know to avoid making errors. Non-technical language is fine, but don't get basic concepts so woefully wrong.