Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was more feistily anti-Trump than usual, with moderator Jeffrey Goldberg leading the panel into various anti-Trump segments, including the president’s fraught relationship with the mainstream press. Goldberg used Trump’s spat with two female reporters in the White House press pool to label Trump, an equal-opportunity insulter, as a sexist, while defending the honor of Trump-hating ABC News reporter Mary Bruce. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Leigh Ann, let’s go to this issue of the relationship between Trump and the press. It’s not hard to notice that while he can express contempt and anger toward male reporters, he seems to be bothered, especially by female reporters here. Watch just a couple of moments of this with me. DONALD TRUMP clip: Quiet. Quiet, Piggy. I think you are a terrible reporter. It`s the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who`s highly respected, asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question. You`re a terrible person and a terrible reporter. GOLDBERG: What is going on here, do you think with him? Is it just pure misogyny where he has a double standard, that he believes that reporters should not behave in a subordinate way? LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: Yes. I mean, the word, insubordinate, just speaks so broadly about how he thinks. Caldwell had to admit that for a sexist, Trump has oddly surrounded himself with prominent female staffers, though she found a loophole to maintain that the president was still sexist. CALDWELL: But I will say on woman -- on the female thing, women reporters notice this. It is a topic of conversation among me and my friends constantly about how he treats female reporters. I will say, if you speak to someone like Kellyanne Conway, who says Donald Trump is great to women, look, she was the first female campaign manager, first female chief of staff, that there's high level women all around him, but those are women who are not challenging him. Those are women who are there to support him. And reporters are there to challenge the president, and that's what he doesn't like. Goldberg’s fellow Atlantic journalist Toluse Olorunnipa also said Trump’s recent attacks contained “real animosity” and were “steeped in misogyny and also seem really personal.” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker went on a tangent about the White House press corps becoming Trump’s personal pep squad, with right-leaning outlets getting more access (as if it the press pool was ideologically balanced before Trump came along). There was plenty of snark directed at those new right-wing media companies. Peter Baker: ….Here's the consequence of the White House taking over control of the White House press pool, which no other president, Republican or Democrat, had ever done. They now control who is in that room. And what that means is that there are fewer mainstream journalism outlets, or whatever phrase we want use, and a lot more of these outlets that are frankly propaganda or politically, ideologically in favor. Goldberg: What are their names just so people at home know what we're talking about? Peter Baker: Well, I mean, obviously, Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend is in there. And I remember the scene -- Goldberg: That's the name of the network, Marjorie Taylor Green's boyfriend television network. Peter Baker: I'll let the networks speak for themselves. Jonathan Karl: Michael Lindell's network. Goldberg: Michael Lindell, the pillow guy, yes. ABC’s Karl repeatedly stuck up for his network’s chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, another Trump target, who previously parroted happy talk about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness and even provided his team her questions in advance. Karl: So, the public, of course, doesn't see a difference it doesn't understand. And the fewer and fewer actual reporters in there challenging him, like Mary Bruce, the more and more he gets angry about that. Baker piled on, claiming “a lot more of these outlets that are frankly propaganda or politically, ideologically in favor." So no big change from the old days of the White House press corps, then?