There's definitely an adversarial 'gotcha' nature coming from some reporters in that room. I'm guessing that seeing each other every day and having to have more or less the same conversation only exascerbates the situation for everybody.
At a state level, at least for me, its really hard to pass too much blame onto the leadership because they're getting next to no help and guidance from above and simply don't have the resources that the federal government seems unwilling to share. We've got 50 poor souls flying by the seats of their pants while the message from above, that they have no control over, seems to change every 2 hours.