Can a journalist be held accountable in this situation?

[rd_aaron]

I had a phone interview once with the Herald cause I had put up an ad on Kijiji looking for tickets to a certain event. It wasn't an important story or anything, but when I read the article, the author definitely re-worded and exagerrated some of the things I said. They definitely weren't direct quotes.

[SebC]

Yeah, I've had an interview done with plenty of botched quotes. Nothing malicious, just misquoted several times in a rather short piece. Nevertheless, I doubt I'll be doing that again.

[kn]

Thanks, everyone. Lots of good advice in this thread. Quite eye-opening for me actually, never having any connection with the media before this.