She is afraid of the questions in an uncontrolled environment



This has become a source of consternation to the media, as expressed by Washington Post colleague Margaret Sullivan earlier this week: "The candidate, famously opaque, answered a grand total of seven questions [in Iowa] on Dec. 4, 2015. Since then, although she’s given individual interviews, she hasn’t made herself available for general media questioning."

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Clinton about this at the end of May. She responded that she had "done nearly 300 interviews just in 2016" and that it was "important to continue to speak to the press as I'm doing right now."

In Sullivan's view, that's not enough. "She gets her message out in ways that are completely controlled," she wrote. "But American citizens deserve better."

there's a distinct difference between a scheduled interview and a full news conference.