He feels he has been 'misused' [=(more commonly) 'mistreated'] by the press.
a word that is frequently 'misused'
(..) To admire another man's wife is a pleasant thing, but sensual desire indulged for its own sake is greed, a kind of gluttony, and a misuse of something sacred, which is given to us so that we may choose the one person with whom to fulfill our humanness. Otherwise, we might as well be cattle. (..)2012 Anna Karenina