Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Hours after offering his resignation, President Trump’s outgoing press secretary, Sean Spicer, assailed the news media for “bias” and said some comedy at his expense has been “mean,” as he appeared on Sean Hannity’s nightly Fox News show on Friday. Spicer said the average American would be shocked by the ways in which news organizations in the “Washington, D.C., media bubble” select stories to tell and stories to ignore. “I think there’s become a very click-bait mentality among a lot of reporters,” he said. He said some reporters perform their jobs honorably, but “by and large we’re seeing more where it’s about the clip or the click.” Spicer also addressed comedy that had been based on his often-confrontational White House news conferences, including actress Melissa McCarthy’s portrayal of him in several sketches on “Saturday Night Live.” He’s “a prankster” himself, he said, and some of it made him laugh, but some did not. The shake-up comes as President Trump is suffering from dismal approval ratings and struggling to advance his agenda. “There’s a lot of it that was over the line and just wasn’t funny,” he said In the interview, Spicer thanked Trump for the opportunity to serve in the administration and wished the best to incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Spicer’s former deputy w... Link to the full article to read more