Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism | Margaret Sullivan
by Margaret Sullivan from US news | The Guardian on (#6RHPM)
Brett Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence. She still injected some reality into Fox News's world
Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions about immigration, designed less to elicit substantive answers than to prove what a tough guy the Fox host could be.
His aggressive approach was understandable, in a way, since Baier had been under pressure for days from the Donald Trump faithful; they were convinced he was going to go easy on the Democratic nominee for president, and maybe even allow her campaign to edit the interview or see the questions in advance.
Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture
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