Best Of: How TV, Twitter and TikTok Remade Our Politics

2471.127 - 2496.058 Sean Illing

But if you take media ecology seriously, then you start with the media environment and then notice how it favors certain kinds of rhetorical appeals or incentivizes certain styles of communication. And then notice how that in turn influences public opinion. So it's like Trump's just a good example. He's a dude who just gets social media and he knows what drives news coverage more generally.