Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler has decried the state of journalism after claiming that Yahoo News quoted him out of context, the Washington Examiner reports.
“‘The media does a disservice to the American public’ by reporting on global warming, says EPA head Andrew Wheeler. Wants more positive coverage,” a reporter from Yahoo News tweeted earlier this week.
“I mean, is Yahoo even a real news service?” Wheeler said to the Examiner’s Washington Secrets. “Anybody online thinks that they’re a reporter these days.”
The EPA later clarified that Wheeler said, “The media does a disservice to the American public and sound policy-making by not informing the public of the progress this nation has made.”
“It tells me that most reporters are lazy these days,” Wheeler said. “What does it say about the state of journalism today? It’s atrocious.”
He added, “I get stuff out of context all the time. All the time, every single day, almost every single article written about me by the mainstream media takes something out of context.”
“If somebody had put out a fake quote about somebody else that made them look bad, a Democrat or one of the Democratic presidential candidates, they would have verified and double verified and called to make sure it was accurate,” Wheeler continued. “They probably wouldn’t have even tweeted it if it was negative against somebody that they liked. They would either ignore it of just double check and triple check it.”
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