Tonight, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden will meet in the second and final 2020 presidential debate. That debate will be moderated by NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker,

Welker has been the target of a relentless campaign by the President and the pro-Trump right at large almost since the close of the first debate. After the slated moderator for the ultimately cancelled second debate Steve Scully claimed to have been hacked in order to explain a message intended for Anthony Scaramucci, Welker temporarily deactivated her Twitter account as a security precaution. When it was revealed Scully lied about the hack, Welker reactivated it.

That incident became a central part of the campaign against Welker's credibility, which included an attack at the New York Post accusing her of bias based on donations to Democrats from her parents. The cries of her supposed unfairness continued from a variety of sources all the way through today.

But today's attack provided another example of the other side, which is that her fellow journalists, members of the media and the political sphere have come to Welker's defense strenuously, and from both sides of the aisle. And even on Fox News, where this morning Bill Hemmer put a cold, hard stop to White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp trying to poison the well once more.

Maybe tonight's debate will put Welker to the real test. Maybe tomorrow she'll face reviews like those that Chris Wallace faced. But with so many people on her side, for today, she is definitely a winner.

Our media winner just days ago, CNN's Brian Stelter hits the other side of the column today for a panel discussion he participated in this week that clearly did not go as planned.

Veteran journalist Susan Ferrechio sparred with Stelter in a discussion for BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show, hosted by Amol Rajan, about whether the media has applied a standard to Hunter Biden’s emails that it failed to apply to the infamous Trump dossier. 

Ferrechio, a reporter for The Washington Examiner, said that the media's coverage of the New York Post's report on Biden has been biased.  "He’s running for president of the United States, and this is serious," she said.

Stelter got into a bickering match with the female reporter, whom he referred to as "bitter" and accused of being resentful.

"The bottom line is this deserves scrutiny by all media outlets, and if they pick and choose this and decide it’s not worth their time, I think that’s showing real bias," said Ferrechio. 

"The bottom line is, we don’t know what is real and what is fake in these emails, if there is anything real in them,” said Stelter and, when Ferrechio replied that such a lack of knowledge doesn't prevent negative stories about Trump such as the Steele dossier reporting, he added, "I know you’re bitter. I understand that you have a lot of resentment about that."

When Ferrechio blasted newsroom ethics, Stelter insisted "don't you dare" impugn the press. That remark, and the "bitter" line, did not play well and gave tons of "case in point" ammo to conservatives who agree with Ferrechio about media bias. A real fail for Stelter.