I hate how far people are willing to go to avoid offending people not worth bothering with in the first place. As regards the gender of said reporter, a simple "him" would have sufficed just as well as a "her" rather than "him or her."
Gravity is just a THEORY, you silly! So of course the Jebster won't be endorsing it. It's a short slippery slope from gravity to evolution to godless communism, you know.