Mary Katherine Hamm made a good point on CNN

But it was useless. She was in a round table with the usual gang of leftist journalists railing about Trump.

To paraphrase: "When you jump on every word that comes out his mouth you're playing into his trap. It hasn't worked for a year. It won't work."

The old saying would be 'you need to pick your battles.'
But the advice fell on deaf ears. The journalists can't help themselves. They refuse to believe that their credibility has fallen to Zero.