When "reporters" care more about their own political agendas then they care about finding and reporting the truth then they should do the right thing and turn in their press credentials.
I know, fat chance.
“Gotcha questions” is like a sport for lame people (journalists especially).
But I’m not sure “Politician Denies Charge” is any worse of a headline than “Politician Refuses to Answer”.
The reality is that journalism is politics. The First Amendment does not require that journalists be, or even suggest that they are, objective. Our problem is not that we don’t have a free press - our problem is that we have a single free press - the Associated Press - and all the newspapers &c. mouth the same party line.People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. . . and the AP newswire is nothing other than a continuous virtual meeting of all major journalists.