It's very difficult to phrase things in a way that doesn't allow journalists to cherry-pick quotations that support the bend of their article, even if your views and how you expressed them are the opposite of that bend and despite the fact that it's somewhat unethical to not properly maintain the integrity of the interviewee's statements. Might as well write your own article if you want to balance the perspectives. It's a sad state of affairs.
EDIT: Just look at the plethora of articles that came out after the SR bust, stating that SR sold hitmen and child porn. If I recall correctly, Al Jazeera even made this error.
It certainly is an art - which I'm still in the process of mastering!
Yes a lot of outlets just repeated that error. My first question when approached by journalists about Silk Road is to ask whether they have actually visited the marketplace themselves. Usually they have not. In Australia when I was talking to journalists about this, some of them just hadn't tried, others had tried to do a bit more of an investigation but IT denied them access to Tor. Really though, it's not hard to at least have a look yourself, the technology is free and available to anyone with a home computer / net connection, and enough curiosity to take the time to make it happen.
Eileen Ormsby and Mike Power, were - of course - exceptions to this, being freelance and genuinely investigative in their approaches, rather than just looking for quick click-bait.
