‘FOX and Friends’: Hopefully We Won’t See the W.H. Press Pool Vitriol We Endured During Trump’s First Term

EXCERPT:

CORKE: "Basically, what we are probably going to see a lot more of is people just trying to get to the meat and potatoes of what is happening. You can interrogate a press secretary fairly without trying to make yourself the story. There are a lot of people — and, listen, I was covering the Trump White House during that era, and I think we can all name some names of people who really just wanted their gotcha moment, you know, people holding the microphone at press conferences when they were supposed to let it go — I won’t mention any names."

PAVLICH: "We don't mention the names unless they want us to."

CORKE: "Yeah, unless they want us to. But I think, hopefully, at least, based on what I have seen in the press room of late, is more serious journalists, people who just want to get answers to questions. We can only hope for the best. Especially when I think back to what Sarah Huckabee Sanders endured, just sort of the vitriol, I think that’s a change that we’ll probably not have to see again."
PAVLICH: "Well, the press has a big credibility problem — "

CORKE: "Huge."

PAVLICH: " — because of the way that they covered the Biden Administration, especially in the last year when they got exposed for not asking the right questions and attacking fellow reporters for asking about cognitive decline, where the president is, what his schedule is. So they have a lot of making up to do when it comes to reporting fairly to the American people, as well."