The Curious Case of the Media’s Failure to Secure an Interview with Kamala HarrisWendell Husebø 10 Aug 2024
Establishment media organizations timidly began to report this week on Vice President Kamala Harris’s lack of unscripted interviews since she became her party’s de facto nominee.
The rarity of the tepid reporting spotlights the media’s failure to secure an interview with Harris. Media outlets typically rush to interview newly nominated presidential candidates, but Kamala Harris appears to be an exception to the rule.
The media has not interviewed Harris on television since June 24, 2024. The last time the press reportedly questioned Harris at a solo news conference was eight months ago on December 2, 2023. Only a few reports in the past few days recount Harris’s lack of unscripted interviews, much less any headlines that slammed Harris for failing to sit for a primetime interview after receiving the nomination.
“The Harris camp is hoping to ride the wave as long as it can,” Politico’s West Wing Playbook explained, appearing to defend Harris’s lack of media access. “So there is little worry about the candidate avoiding something else that has long been required of presidential nominees: taking questions from the press.”
Harris promised on Thursday to schedule only one interview in August, and it remains unclear if the interview will take place in the last three weeks of August or if the interview’s scheduling will take place before August ends.
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