Let this be a warning to ALL OF YOU.

If you deign to be interviewed by print or video journalists - and there are many reasons why you should, particularly when trying to get the truth out against the waves of prejudice - make sure you have at the very least a voice-activated tape recorder.

If you want to be really overt, offer the journalist a copy "to ensure the accuracy of the quotes".

Furthermore, if you're given the journalist's name ahead of time you can google up their previous articles and in most cases, predict what questions they'll ask or where they'll try to lead you.

You can counter this by writing out notes to yourself ahead of time, with the bullet points (no pun intended) that you want to get across. Do your homework ahead of time and when the interview starts, you may not even have to check your notes.

It's like looking at a map before you take a trip - if you memorize the route and the bypasses, you may not even have to pull it out.

Just some food for thought.