Remember the CNN’s Bernard Shaw and correspondents John Holliman and Peter Arnett in Baghdad who refused to tell US forces what they saw in the opening days of the gulf war.
They protected Saddam Hussein to keep their Baghdad bureau.
So called “American” journalists were far more confrontational with President Trump than they ever were meeting with Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez.
Dan Ratherbiased met with Saddam Hussein on the eve of the second Iraq war (after Saddam had repeatedly broken the conditions of the end of the first Iraq/Gulf war). Dan told Saddam that he felt he understood why Saddam referred to GWBush as “Mister Bush” instead of “President Bush”.