AUSTIN, Texas – The biographer of the late legendary broadcaster Barbara Walters says the iconic newswoman would anticipate Vice President Kamala Harris to do extra interviews forward of the presidential election.
“I think Barbara Walters would be pursuing her,” creator Susan Page instructed Fox News Digital in an interview at the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival. “I think pursuing her with the expectation that part of the job of being president is talking to Americans, and one of the ways you talk to Americans is through the news media.”
“She would expect both nominees to be doing interviews with serious journalists during a presidential campaign,” Page added.
Harris averted taking questions from the press practically 40 days since she emerged as the Democratic nominee earlier than she lastly granted an interview with CNN's Dana Bash alongside her operating mate Tim Walz.
Since then, she has solely completed two radio interviews. She has but to carry a proper press convention.
Former President Trump, in the meantime, has sought to focus on the distinction in media availability between the two, granting a number of interviews, holding a number of press conferences and collaborating in a televised city corridor with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
Even following Tuesday's presidential debate, Trump took questions from the reporters inside the spin room and has completed extra interviews.
Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today and creator of “The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters,” spoke about what impressed her to write down about the journalism trailblazer.
“For women journalists, no one has been a more iconic figure than Barbara Walters,” Page mentioned. “That's true for women in TV broadcast journalism, it's true for women in print journalism, like myself, as well. And there was no real biography of Barbara Walters ever written, and I thought she deserved one.”
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Throughout her decades-long profession, Walters repeatedly made historical past, first turning into the first feminine co-host of NBC's “The Today Show,” later turning into the highest paid information anchor ever when she joined ABC News.
“If you grew up watching Barbara Walters, it wouldn't occur to you that a woman couldn't do big interviews, couldn't interview presidents and prime ministers and despots and murderers, and it also wouldn't occur to you that a woman couldn't make as much money or more than her male colleagues,” Page mentioned.
Walters died in December 2022 at age 93.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
Original article supply: Barbara Walters would expect Kamala Harris to do interviews, author says: ‘Part of the job of being president'
