Sean Spicer ‘disappointed’ with media’s ‘clickbait mentality’

Published July 22, 2017 2:32am ET



Outgoing White House press secretary Sean Spicer trashed the media on the same day he resigned his position, and said most White House reporters are more interested in getting clicks than writing about the truth and facts.

“I was increasingly disappointed in how so many members of the media do their job, or rather don’t do their job,” Spicer said in an interview on Fox News. “The bias which they come from, it has become a clickbait mentality with the reporters where they are concerned with their clip or their click more than they are with the truth and the facts.”

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