It seems, from reading Twitter at least, that Trump MAGA people who watched the Fox News interview with Kamala Harris thought it was a disaster for her; whereas Harris supporters watched it and thought she performed very credibly with a hostile and interrupting interviewer. (I haven't had time to watch much myself - I have only seen the widely posted segment in which she called them for not showing the full clip of Trump calling his political opposition evil and "the enemy".)
This is not news - but it's a great example of how both social media, and the fragmentation of media into arms which are outright propaganda networks for profit, have allowed for the creation of completely different mental and information worlds in which people now live. It's a great reminder of David Robert's 2017 column on the problem of tribal epistemology - and, you have to say, the mainstream media really still ignores it.
I mean, people don't create their own mental worlds in a vacuum. They form it in a community, and while it has always been possible for people to follow cranks and form a self supporting community around them, billionaires now (for profit and other self interest) use the modern tools of communication to create and sustain such bubble worlds of "alternative" crank takes by creating the community needed to support it.
Really, the mainstream media, and politicians, need to be saying that, day in and day out, instead of just pretending its just the landscape now, there is nothing to be done about it.
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She only went on there to show she was strong and tough. She di that in spades.
The same people who thought she was terrible thought TRump's performance at that economic forum was brilliant. Only trouble was it was embarrassing.
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