There are reasons why journalists may want to try and couch and contort themselves fearing they’ll lose access to politicians they call out for lying. They fear they’ll be iced out from joining the same 20 people listening to the same platitudes at the same press conference.
A real public service would be to clearly and continuously force politicians face their lies by calling them out to the public, as many have thankfully begun to do.
What we don’t need is more journalists wasting our time explaining to us why they’re lying.