John Stoehr in Raw Story writing about how Vice President Harris is not allowing the press too much access as her momentum builds:
"The first thing you need to know about the vice president’s approach to the Washington press corps is look how well she’s doing as a result. Kamala Harris is now leading Donald Trump in some national polling averages as well as in some swing-state polls. True, her lead is within the margin of error in most cases, but that’s an improvement from where the Democrats were before Joe Biden dropped out of the running and orchestrated instantaneous unification around his No. 2.
I don’t think I’m overstating things. Her current lead, the millions of dollars she’s bringing in, the thousands of volunteers who are signing up to help, the big big mo’ – I think all of it comes directly from her campaign’s decision not to give the press corps too much access too fast. I think that decision comes directly from the fact that Harris saw firsthand what the press corps did to Joe Biden’s campaign." (our emphasis)
The press' timidity and double standard about pointing out the obvious that the Malignant Loser is a mentally unbalanced pathological liar, combined with their petty resentment at the Vice President for not being sufficiently submissive to them (also see, Hillary Clinton 2016) is a major feature of this election cycle. We've always maintained that the idea of a "liberal press" is dated and vastly overstated, as our media worthies bend over backward to accommodate right-wing pols by not publishing leaked Trump insider emails, not fact-checking them in interviews, etc. For years, the right has successfully "played the refs" in the press, loudly and usually falsely accusing them of bias to get them to favorable coverage from them.
Harris has eschewed formal press conferences for impromptu q & a sessions with the traveling press as she campaigns. We're happy that she's taken the lesson of their unbalanced treatment of President Biden (and many Dems before him) and keeping our broken political media at arms length for now.
