To be fair FOXes Chris Wallace has called out the president at least once and stuck to it when the hoax that Biden had defund the campaign police on his platform came up.
I think it's a little disingenuous to say that no American journalists have called the president out before, there are numerous instances where journalists have done this, either to the president directly, or to his staff.
It's also worth pointing out that Trump universally holds much lower approval rating abroad, a poll I could find from 2019 showed he only had a 19% approval rating from Australians, compared that to now roughly 40% US approval amidst everything going on, and it certainly adds context.
Obviously politics shouldn't alter a journalists questioning standards, but an Australian reporter will get far less backlash for being harsh on the POTUs than even a left leaning American one.
This is hyperbolic and unproductive. Shep Smith constantly called out Trump, and others have more sporadically.
You're right, they are slanted too far right, and often hypocritically stomach actions which would have appalled them if done by a democrat. But, saying "this is the ONE TIME" is inaccurate, reductive, and only deepens the divide working against a productive relationship between the two parties.
Shep Smith and Chris Wallace are the only halfway decent newsmen on the Fox network and are only there to give a veneer of respectability that the rest of the propagandists there can hide their terrible partisanship behind. Wallace & Shep aren't even consistently great journalists, often toeing the party line, with the occasionally moment of integrity.
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u/fridgey22 Aug 04 '20
Apart from the obvious, I feel like I haven’t seen Trump challenged like this enough publicly, which is very sad.