In their statement the EPA went after the AP and one of the reporters directly:The EPA press release links to a Breitbart story blasting the AP’s reporting as “fake news” http://pic.twitter.com/y2j7d1s8Mz— Jon Passantino (@passantino) September 3, 2017
Unfortunately, the Associated Press’ Michael Biesecker has a history of not letting the facts get in the way of his story. Earlier this summer, he made-up a meeting that Administrator Pruitt had, and then deliberately discarded information that refuted his inaccurate story – ultimately prompting a nation-wide correction. Additionally, the Oklahoman took him to task for sensationalized reporting.
"The Oklahoman" by the way is a rather conservative paper which was quick to come to the defense of fellow Oklahoman Scott Pruitt:
THE disdain that some in the media have for President Trump and members of his administration is evident regularly. Recent coverage related to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt provides an example of interest to locals because of Pruitt's Oklahoma ties.
As you can read from that opening paragraph the paper has a clear and obvious bias. So of course Trump's EPA is going to cherry pick their story to bolster their complaint against the AP.
The Associated Press of course has a response.
All of this is of course comes directly from the Donald Trump playbook which is to promote positive press coverage and dismiss any negative, fact based, coverage as "fake news."Statement from @AP executive editor Sally Buzbee about @JHDearen and my report on flooded #Superfund sites in #Houston. @EPA #Harvey http://pic.twitter.com/qeegU1q3eT— Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck) September 3, 2017
And now it appears that these same tactics have been adopted by the federal agencies now under Trump's control.
Apparently this is the new normal.
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