Last Night’s CNN Interview of Harris and Walz

The CNN interview of Harris and Walsh last night was broken into bits and sandwiched between commercials, teasers as to what was to come, and background segments apparently designed to lend flavor to the affair. The woman conducting the interview wasted a lot of time on human interest topics, petty issues, and gossipy items, thereby diverting attention from major concerns, like the fact that one of those running in the election tried to overthrow the government of the United States and is still at it. Much that deserved close attention was left unexplored. Focus and continuity were thrown to the winds.

Interviewing Harris and Walz together felt misguided and artificial. Most of the time, Governor Walz had nothing to do but watch with a grim attentive expression on his face. He was grilled about past misstatements, thereby diminishing his luster, but his petty transgressions years ago, such as they were, are of zero importance compared to what’s at stake in this election. I hope those conducting the September 10th debate between Trump and Harris do better.