If she is speaking to voters she can speak directly. She should understand the 95% of journalists are there to KILL her chances and just speaking to them is unsafe.
DeSantis and his media team might be on to something by refusing to speak to the corporate media at all.
It’s a tough calculus though if you don’t have the name recognition that DeSantis has. She had to know that Newsweek would twist her words (which they did), but she also needs to get some fraction of the votes of the independent, low-information voters, and name recognition is huge with that segment of the electorate.
My guess is that she’s toast this cycle, but it’s a long game, and there will be other races that will benefit from the work done on this race.