Published more than a decade ago in a book:
“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is to synthesise Soviet control with Western entertainment. Twenty-first-century Ostankino mixes show business and propaganda, ratings with authoritarianism. And at the centre of the great show is the President himself” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014
White House is Twitter meme entertainment, decorated memes of Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon meme venues.
White House is HDTV entertainment, Power of Mythology as defined in 1988 book and TV series filmed by George Lucas for his Star Wars audience education. Memes (John 1:1) of myths.“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
decade ago “And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is to synthesise Soviet control with Western entertainment. Twenty-first-century Ostankino mixes show business and propaganda, ratings with authoritarianism. And at the centre of the great show is the President himself” - year 2014
“Sleepy Joe”, “Sleepy Joe Biden”
“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014