What was the point of the article? You answered it , Show off some wacky man-skirt guy and bring out extreme responses. Unfortunatly the folks that do these kind of pieces often have a predetermined angle, and will fit the facts to it. I bet she looked at a ton of folks till she found one "interesting" enough to make a example of in print.

I was at a anti helmet law rally at our state capital once, and the Austin media was not on our side on the helmet law deal. A TV reporter was there talking to folks, I was pretty up to speed on the issues and when she talked to me I made a concise soundbyte sized statement, people in the crowd gave me a thumbs up! The guy after me was yelling "helmet laws suck", sporting a mohawk, and bouncing an old helmet on the ground. Who do you think was the news? Maybe it's the mohawk?

If you are ever interviewed by the print media again you should print up a info sheet to press in their hand, but don't expect it to be printed.