In my admittedly small experience watching what some of us now call the "legacy media", I've seen that reporters, especially the bigger celebrity reporters, don't even bother to do much research about such matters.  I think she was just throwing a "gotcha" question at you, and I thought you handled it perfectly.  It's my considered opinion that they live in a world completely separated from stiffs like me and that they only care about their careers as opposed to their jobs, at least what their jobs are theoretically supposed to be.  Again, just my opinion, not something to be taken seriously.