Reporters and Advocates

   Commentators have criticized the New York Times reporter who interviewed Donald Trump for not challenging some of the president's remarks.
   That's not necessarily a reporter's job, especially when the interview subject is overly sensitive to disagreement of any kind and only doubles down on his positions when challenged.
   A reporter's job is to record what the person says and does and report his comments without judgement.
   Moreover, this can become even more revealing when the interviewee is prone to verbal wandering. And when dealing with Trump, it's useful to not clean up the grammar and syntax or to challenge the factual inaccuracies.
   Checking the facts and presenting the alternative evidence can be done later for the print edition, and retaining the grammar and syntax gives an accurate record of how the subject handles and responds to information.
   So the question for news consumers becomes this: Can a journalist be guilty of bias when reporting exactly what a president says and does, in all its grammatical and syntactical confusion and obfuscation?
   You be the judge.