This guy's the real deal. Here's the evidence.
1. It isn't in a fancy-smancy magazine, it's on a web site primarily aimed at other photographers, and people who enjoy "behind the scenes" info.
2. Those are his words. Photographers are notoriously bad spellers. Notice the woman was "whaling", not "wailing", and that he told people to be "weary", not "wary" of things you read. A good copy editor would have corrected those mistakes in a second, before allowing the story to be printed.
3. He didn't accuse the major media just of being lazy. He called them liars. "We're continually hearing of "violent clashes with police" when the TV stations report on non-violent demonstrations we covered ourselves." That's about as straight as you can call someone a liar. Betcha 50 cents THIS article never makes it into the mainstream. This is NOT a media plant.