I think you’ve naive if you believe any of the reporters in the media are doing anything but what their bosses expect. Not excusing, just being realistic. This is a job for them, they are not there to do our thinking for us.
I don't believe anything any of them say.
But when a reporter who spent six years fawning over Obama when she was at ABC News all of a sudden says she was concerned about the dishonesty and “opaqueness” after she retires it becomes too hypocritical not to notice.