evidence: Bar the time window mentioned at the end, this back-and-forth as to whether Kamala Harris should do more media interviews—all of it from the past few days—could have been lifted from a newsletter I wrote over a month ago, when that debate started to ramp up among commentators: some argued that Harris was dodging scrutiny (and opening herself up to political attacks in the process); others countered that Harris doesn’t need the press to get her message out and that the calls for her to do more interviews were less a function of high-minded concern for accountability and more one of self-absorbed elite-media whining. If that debate never quite went away in between times, it got a renewed jolt of energy last week—not least due to a story in Axios bearing the headline "The Harris-Walz media strategy: Hide from the press" (and an illustration reinforcing the point). By Axios’s count, since President Biden dropped out of the presidential race, in July, Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, had taken part in seven interviews or press conferences, compared with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s combined seventy-two.