Spoiler alert: most of the media are unintelligent nitwits who lack the ability to think in 2nd or 3rd order effects or multivariate potentials.

They have question in mind. There is one predisposed answer that is supposed to be given.

They short circuit if any non-programmed response is given.

Because they are ijits.

"War is politics through other means."
-Von Clauswitz, On War

Any advice, really.