TV familiarity made Trump feel personally known while Clinton seemed remote

Evidence

This form of populism depends upon television’s simulation of intimacy and familiarity — McLuhan remarked that when people see a film star on the street, they recognise them, but when people see a TV star, they typically think that it is someone they know. Trump’s presiding over The Apprentice, his willingness to appear on shows such as The Roast of Donald Trump, means that he feels like someone audiences personally know. As a representative of this “professional elite”, Clinton was too close, too familiar. At the same time, Trump’s position in the media ecology means that, in some respects, he could seem less remote than Hillary Clinton. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2041

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier work on intimacy, trust, and media-simulated familiarity (cf. Trust literature). — connects to: Television’s simulated intimacy made Trump feel personally known to voters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2041; Television manufactured Trump’s business-genius persona before his political rise — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 422; Attention became the dominant frame for explaining Trump-era politics. — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 15 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: McLuhan’s film-star versus TV-star distinction — worth chasing the original source for a citation.

Broader Connections

• Television’s simulated intimacy made Trump feel personally known to voters #corroborates (0.97) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2041
• A reality TV persona fabricated by producers launched Trump’s political career #expands (0.76) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 422
• Television manufactured Trump’s business-genius persona before his political rise #expands (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 422
• Attention became the dominant frame for explaining Trump-era politics. #expands (0.72) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 15