Those are the kind issues both player and management want handled in house. Reporters know this, but they got to sell papers, get viewers to tune in and get clicks on the internet. Fuck em.
Like I said, they are doing their job. And SEA wants them there, that is why they grant them credentials. SEA doesn't get to just have softball questions lobbed up there, when someone is a dick on the sidelines they will get asked about it. The person in the wrong is the one not doing his job, which is Dick. his job is to chase after other men, not tell the offense what play to run.