Top News Outlet’s Owner Publicly Rips Kamala Harris For Refusing Interviews

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing serious fallout for sticking to friendly media outlets during her public relations blitz. The newest critic is Time Magazine’s owner, Marc Benioff, who fumed that she denied multiple requests to be interviewed for a major story.

Unlike every other major presidential candidate, “Time has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris,” Benioff wrote on X. “We believe in transparency and publish each interview in full. Why isn’t the Vice President engaging with the public on the same level?” He added hashtags #TrustMatters and #TransparencyMatters. Fox News reported on Benioff’s salvo after his magazine released a 3,000-word story exploring how or what Harris might prioritize in her own administration.

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Benioff also linked to separate interviews with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump who each sat for more than 90 minutes as part of stories about their administrations. Instead, Vice President Harris has largely stuck to progressive podcasts or local media shows in swing states where she is virtually guaranteed to receive friendly or less-informed lines of questioning. The piece, which Fox News called “largely sympathetic” to Harris, also quoted independent voter Rodrigo Lopez who described the incredulity in seeing Harris pivot from ultra-progressive in 2020 to moderate in 2024. “Yet she has skirted the thorough accounting of her policy evolution that Lopez is seeking, in part by speaking infrequently to reporters,” the story stated. “When she does do interviews, she mostly favors local media, culture podcasts, or friendly talk shows. Harris declined repeated requests for an interview for this story.”

Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris—unlike every other Presidential candidate. We believe in transparency and publish each interview in full. Why isn’t the Vice President engaging with the public on the same level? #TrustMatters…

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) October 13, 2024

Fox noted that Trump was the likelier of the two presidential candidates to face hostile questions from Time, which last month featured a beaming picture of Harris on its cover. To be sure, editors in August published Trump’s bloody photo from the moments after he survived an attempted assassination. Reporter Charlotte Alter also filled her Harris coverage with favorable quotes from supporters like Pete Buttigieg, CNN’s Bakari Sellers, and gun control activist David Hogg. Most mainstream outlets have largely shrugged off Harris’s arms-length approach to them as she appears on liberal-friendly programs like SiriusXM’s Howard Stern program or CBS’s “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”

Alter also described Harris as “more practical than ideological,” a sympathetic way of describing her shifting positions since running to the left in her first run for the White House. “You can imagine the Harris presidency as an iOS upgrade of the current Administration: the operating system would stay the same, but with new features and better packaging. There are tonal ­differences between the two: Harris talks more—and more ­comfortably—about abortion rights than Biden ever did, speaks with more empathy about the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and has put housing and small business at the center of her plans for strengthening the middle class,” Alter wrote. “But for the most part, allies and critics agree there is little evident policy daylight between the Democratic nominee and the President she replaced atop the party’s ticket this summer.”

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