Every time someone from a virtual community has a brush with traditional media, these things happen:
- They don't get the point
- They omit vital information (like the URL, if it is WWW stuff)
- They make the users look like freaks
- They call the someone a hacker, or a cracker or both
- They put the thing between a segment (article, clip) about Groundhog Day and one about "How to treat diarrhoea in children".
I have seen it happen. I was the someone. The virtual community was Little Italy. The traditional media was Italian state TV. They gave us all of five minutes, a modem that would not work and they had no capability to feed a VGA signal into their video mixer.
As I and my co-wizards were leaving for Milano, we said in a chorus "For this I went to Turin and wasted a whole day ?" --- and that was when we had a minor car crash.
Even somewhat more serious attempts like My Tiny Life don't quite get it.