That “reporter”, sorry to say but not unlike many a “policeman”, is the shit on the end of a stick. Not being the stick, they endlessly claim to have “no control” over what the stick is poking them into…
“I’m just doing my job being this shit on the end of a stick, you’ll have to speak to the person holding the stick… in the mean time, i just need to ask you a few more shitty questions. Now don’t get mad at me if you smell some shit going on around here, i’m just doing my job.”