I note that the Sun reporter was as you said, one of those freelance ones. Thats what happened to me too and he made me out to be a pretty explosive person. I do have a temper when things get to me but it usually takes quite a bit. And anyway, the green eyed monster in me is usually exposed on a football pitch, dont like losing at that!!!
Thats where the vigilante tag has come from. Pretty unfair but thats whats happens with shoot tabloids like that. Only in it to get some sort of story and if they can dramatise it they will.
They even duped me into a photo whilst waitin for ma bus when a was startin work.This guy with Sun I.D said they were doin a piece on violence on buses. All the guy asked me was "Is violence on buses a daily occurence", I told him yes it was and that I hated it but needed the job to suport ma family.*SNAP*. Photo taken. Next thing a know am out of a job after bein tarred as a "furious bus driver".
Total crap. Media coverage is a very sensitive issue to me and I will never forgive them for it. It may have changed my life for the better for the fact that I have time with my family, but financially it has crippled us.
Take care and good luck with them.