I've often wondered before why hackers avoid journalists, even the ones with the most positive intentions. I wonder no more. Seriously.

I was interviewed by a young journalist recently - curious, interested, open minded. She knew little about hackers and hacktivism, but wanted to write an article for the Special issue of the Link newspaper, whose topic was "Nerds", and the article "Hack to Basics". I took the necessary time to explain the sensitiveness of the issue around the negative vision of "hackers in mass media", some nuanced ways of dealining with certain questions. Edited her article in the end. And then - when it was published, it came out that the story looks like any other stereotyping story over the media. My edits were ignored, and typos appeared on the URL of the hackerspace name, and even on the street name on which it is located.