If he was actually trying to be a journalist covering it, he would have had Pantsu holding the phone and filming him giving remarks before and after Fuentes speeches.
Ralph is as much a journalist as Brianna Wu is a cyber security expert. If Ralph was a journalist, he'd actually write news stories instead of Tumblr crying sessions. If Ralph was a journalist he'd actually have his own news segments reading his own stuff instead of just playing Tucker clips and reading, verbatim, other people's articles.