I understand what you are saying @David Mack. As a journalist, I've worked with many different communities and the discomfort you describe is frequent: a journalist asks one or two questions and then tells an overly simplistic story, whether negative or positive.
On the one hand, it's a problem intrinsic to the profession, because of the tight deadlines we manage and because it's impossible to tell a world in one article. There is no solution, but I think the most honest thing to do is to give space to different voices/perspectives. That's what I generally try to do, but of course I can't speak for what other colleagues do. On the other hand, everyone has a different point of view. Maybe the same article that someone found very unrepresentative, someone else found that it represented their life story very well.
It's very interesting what you say about the more difficult aspects of living on a boat, which are often underrepresented, and will certainly be a question in my interviews. In the end, it's the same with everything, isn't it? Nothing is 100% wonderful or 100% terrible.
Thanks for the feedback, it gives me food for thought! I don't think I discovered any original idea, just, as I said before, it caught my attention something that doesn't exist in my home country.
(A small linguistic clarification because I think I expressed myself wrongly: when I said "lifestyle" I was mentally translating the expression "estilo de vida" from Spanish. I didn't mean to express something that is fashionable or cool, etc., as "lifestyle" magazines tend to show, but rather a choice - like any other life choice, for example, living abroad. That's how I wanted to express it, but I don't think I got it right.)