WELL, YES: Kamala Harris’s media gambit is working.

Vice President Kamala Harris has done an impressive job lowering the bar on the question of how she will communicate her views to voters. As you know, Harris has not done an interview since a group of backroom Democratic Party insiders muscled President Joe Biden out of the race on July 21, leading to Harris’s instant elevation to Democratic nominee the next day. Yes, she has taken a few softball questions from her traveling press corps but nothing of any consequence. Needless to say, Harris has not done a news conference to take questions from reporters over an extended period of time.

Harris is avoiding the press for two reasons. One, she’s not a very good extemporaneous speaker, and a news conference would just be an opportunity to create problems for herself. Two, the press is doing her work for her, portraying her as ‘moving to the center’ based on the word of anonymous aides, not Harris herself.

Mostly it’s working (to the extent it can work with a candidate as weak as Harris) because the press — if we can still call it that — is deeply uninterested in doing their purported job and heavily invested in pushing radical candidates into positions of power.