Why doesn't the media call Arians out?

This is a serious question I'm curious about.

Arians has made a number of bad gameday decisions. The latest was him wasting a time out on challenging a play after being out of challenges. Then he offers some dumb, clearly untrue reason about this one time Marvin Lewis did it.

Then what I see are a bunch of puff pieces from people like SR and Gregg Auman explaining Arians decision without being critical.

Am I missing something or is the media completely in Arians pocket? Are local beat writers too captive to the team to actually ask serious and interesting questions?

P s. Didn't a PR writer say they were going to ask Arians about who the best play caller was? Was that question even asked