How hard is the media trying to ignore Kamala Harris’s policy record and buy wholesale her claims she is moving to the center?

On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Senator Tom Cotton rattled off a series of Kamala’s extreme policy views and included her support for abolishing private health insurance. Moderator Jon Karl Interrupted him and claimed she had changed her position. Cotton punched back and pointed out that her only retreat from the single-payer position that Bernie Sanders takes was made “by anonymous aides on a Friday night” and Harris herself has never retracted her position.

Karl continued to argue that Harris had moved to the center, and seemed unknowledgeable on her policy views. For the record, here is her statement on private health insurance from the 2020 campaign:

Given how much the media is giving Harris a pass on her radical views, it does raise the question: Why is Harris so hesitant to hold a news conference or a one-on-one interview given the laptop media’s treatment of her?