Seriously, the ability for the interviewers to say "Okay, now actually answer the question I asked you" would be helpful. This is an absolutely infuriating pattern - question is asked, answer is given that doesn't even attempt to address the question, interviewer moves on.
I sympathize with both sides. It does frustrate me as well, but if the interviewers did that, people would stop agreeing to do interviews with them. It effectively prevents the interviewee from controlling the narrative, which is the only reason to agree to an interview in the first place.
I don't sympathize with the media at all. If they all stopped trading softball treatment for access, they wouldn't need to trade softball treatment for access anymore. They raced to the bottom and we all lost.
... or the interviews need to last for years.