The media gets nothing from Kamala Harris. That’s mostly on us.

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Hume

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Broadly speaking, there are a few kinds of interviews that a journalist might conduct with someone like Harris.

The most prevalent by far, which is what CNN was up to, is what I’d call the institutional interview. It’s not so much about the agenda of any specific journalist — or the interests of the audience, for that matter — as it is about bringing attention to the network or newspaper that has managed to secure it.

 
"News organizations tend to think about these interviews in the same way Hollywood thinks about a formulaic sitcom; the first episode is about this, then the second episode is about that, and so on until you run out of time in the season. The questions cover a bunch of topics and are related only in the sense that they are trying to trap the candidate into admitting some kind of inconsistency, which is the main theme of the show.
 
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