Kamala Harris benefited from an inordinate amount of active support from the press. The Media Research Center estimated that roughly four-fifths of all the coverage she received was positive. And that was when the press was covering her at all — at least, in the conventional sense.
Harris spent the first month of her campaign conspicuously avoiding exposure to reporters — a strategy to which reporters themselves did not object. Rather, some in the Fourth Estate celebrated their marginalization in observation of their political objectives, which aligned with Harris’s. When she dared expose herself to ostensibly adversarial reporters, she was peppered with stumpers like “Are you open to more debates?” and “When are you going to sit down for your first interview?”
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