This isn’t new. People keep asking celebrities about things they have no expertise on, and politicians have been more celebrity than political servant for a long time it seems.
I don’t care about Ariana Grande’s opinion on the Trump administration insofar as learning whether or not she’s a fascist and I don’t care what kind of music my governor thinks slaps during halftime.
Nah, it’s newer than you think. A lot of it has to do with the rise of the right wing media ecosystem. That’s part of why I brought it up in this thread.
Like yes, they were planting the seeds of this with brainless morons like Rush Limbaugh, but their rise to prominence as “cultural critics” was really in the last decade or so.
These dumbass podcast hosts helped immensely with that and so did Trump, who offers his opinion on art and entertainment and thinks it’s the only one that matters.
The “left wing” media is somewhat complicit in it too. The American media ecosystem overall has shifted to this reality TV or podcast interview mode, where instead of focusing on politicians doing their fucking job they write up articles about their opinions on arts and entertainment.
The difference being that entertainers use their platform because they think they owe it to their fans. Which is admirable. Is it partially business strategy? No doubt it’s part of it.
But politicians are giving their opinions on art and NOT doing their job. Which is what the vast majority of people want. They are doing the opposite of that. So they need to function as their main duties before mouthing off on something that isn’t even in their vein.
This isn’t new. People keep asking celebrities about things they have no expertise on, and politicians have been more celebrity than political servant for a long time it seems.
I don’t care about Ariana Grande’s opinion on the Trump administration insofar as learning whether or not she’s a fascist and I don’t care what kind of music my governor thinks slaps during halftime.
Nah, it’s newer than you think. A lot of it has to do with the rise of the right wing media ecosystem. That’s part of why I brought it up in this thread.
Like yes, they were planting the seeds of this with brainless morons like Rush Limbaugh, but their rise to prominence as “cultural critics” was really in the last decade or so.
These dumbass podcast hosts helped immensely with that and so did Trump, who offers his opinion on art and entertainment and thinks it’s the only one that matters.
The “left wing” media is somewhat complicit in it too. The American media ecosystem overall has shifted to this reality TV or podcast interview mode, where instead of focusing on politicians doing their fucking job they write up articles about their opinions on arts and entertainment.
The difference being that entertainers use their platform because they think they owe it to their fans. Which is admirable. Is it partially business strategy? No doubt it’s part of it.
But politicians are giving their opinions on art and NOT doing their job. Which is what the vast majority of people want. They are doing the opposite of that. So they need to function as their main duties before mouthing off on something that isn’t even in their vein.