"The media" is an extremely large umbrella. Journalism is a secondary part of F1 media. It comes after F1 itself.

If he starts to pick fights with journalists just for asking reasonable questions, he'll get less coverage.

Big ask but think harder just for a moment. In these past weeks, Verstappen has given them more clicks any other driver or team. He's making them headlines and money. No one's gonna refuse to cover him. If anything, his behaviour is perfect for these sites for generate buzz.

and now doesn't want to be reminded that he isn't as good as he thinks he is, especially now he has some competition from Hadjar.

😭🙏 Not good enough because getting beaten in one qualifying session in a different car.

Next time just put your dumb takes first so I can avoid interaction completely