The leftist pundit class is looking at the conversation with the anxiety of a ruling nobility that doesn’t want to accept a change to the status quo
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If you’ve ever taken a communications or journalism 101 course, you’ve heard the famous adage of late Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the message. This adage certainly held true during this week’s social media conversation between billionaire X owner Elon Musk and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. To put it bluntly, their conversation was drab — boring, even. And yet it was fascinating, too: the medium offered more of a message than the two men could have ever hoped to.
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Neither man is particularly known for his oratory prowess, yet both are capable of wrangling enormous crowds (in this case, at least 1.2 million) to hang on to their every word. Their conversion (Musk took pains to iterate that it was not an “interview”) was also a first: a former president and incessant gascon, coming off the high of a near-assassination and entering an election campaign of unprecedented polarization, shooting the breeze with an equally polarizing famous man who’s also prone to making inflammatory statements........