Tucker-Trump make 250 million views. What is public debate for?
Trumo is making headlines in the mainstream media for the charges leveled against him in Georgia, which will probably pass at the federal level and which, in the end, risk being the main propaganda tool in favor of him and the Republican party. What I would like to tell you about is how this story has revealed the decadence and, ultimately, the uselessness of the mainstream media as a mass communication tool.
Trump granted an interview to former FoxNews reporter Tucker Carlson and broadcast on social media X, also known as Twitter. This interview had over 250 views in one day
How many TV shows have had similar followings? Nobody. The televised debate of the eight other Republican candidates had 12.8 million viewers . Even adding online views to the maximum, we'll get to 20. What sense would it have made for Trump to participate in that debate? What sense did it have for the candidates themselves to do so? To please FoxNews and sell them some ad?
The situation turned out to be so unbalanced that the televised debate appeared not as the expression of the race for the White House, but as the choice of the Vice-Presidential candidate in ticket with Trump, by now a candidate already nominated.
Trump has chosen to use this visibility by returning to social media that appear neutral and accepting of his presence. Just today, after three years, he returned to X (Twitter), sending a message
https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023
Then he began to grant impromptu and live interviews to friendly channels, starting from the NewsMax network which, unlike FaxNews, has always been his friend and which represents the Republican party in its Trumpian component.
I don't want to make predictions about the 2024 presidential elections: the mechanism is complex and prone to manipulation. But this story certainly reveals the comatose state of mainstream communication: by now they talk to each other, they quote each other to confirm their existence.
But the future of politics and political propaganda is elsewhere.
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