Another inflection point for the mainstream media

By not doing a conventional interview with legacy media, Kamala Harris is forcing us to think about what role that sort of journalism now plays in our democracies

There is currently a debate in the US media about whether Kamala Harris should make herself available for a sit-down interview with a mainstream journalist, or journalists, so that she may be “held to account” in the traditional way. The argument turns on the assumption that the media is the ultimate watchdog on political power without which democracy c…