Opinion Piece in the Washington Post by Matt Bai, 9/3/24

Headline:  “The media gets nothing from Kamala Harris. That’s mostly on us.”

Subhead:  “Conversations between candidates and reporters often fail to reveal anything. There’s a better way.”

” . . .conversations between journalists and candidates so often fail to reveal anything of substance. And the failure is mostly on our side.

“If we journalists are actually interested in revealing things about our candidates that enlighten voters and ennoble the process, then it’s time to completely rethink the questions we ask.

“Increasingly, interviews like this are structured with an ear toward social media, where mobs of ideologically charged critics on either side are always ready to whine about the question that wasn’t asked or the lie that wasn’t immediately called out.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/03/harris-media-interview-better-questions/