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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Mainstream journalists are clamoring for Harris to do more interviews, but these interviews haven’t been substantive. “Not only are these interviews not terribly valuable for the candidate; they’re not terribly valuable as journalism.”

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Jason KottkeMOD

Kamala Harris doesn't owe the mainstream press anything:

More, the media centering itself as the main story in a presidential campaign where the fate of democracy is in the balance is self-parodic, and self-indicting. It illustrates, and sums up, all the ways in which the press has failed in the Trump era.

It's all about trying to manufacture a gotcha moment, not substantive interviews:

The game here is to try to get Harris to say something inflammatory about Trump supporters that can be used as a headline, like Hillary Clinton did with her "basket of deplorables" remark.

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