I'll just take your word on Canadaland's selective editing of the interview. I listened to the original and Jesse's voice irritates me almost as much as it must irritate you. Still, full props for doing the "interview" in the first place and going in guns blazing right from the start.
Jun 7, 2022·edited Jun 7, 2022Liked by Terry Glavin
Just a comment on the Lib government as a troll farm using media to "rile up an increasingly hard-left base" (Jerema) and to goad Conservative responses.
While I recognize as a government, rather than just a political party, there is a responsibility to govern, I wonder if it would not be more accurate to say that politics has become a landscape of troll farmers. So while Trudeau Libs seek to stir the pot on their own behalf, how, for example, have they contributed to the Cons apparent 400,000 membership drive at the same time? And is Poilievre not trying to become the troll farmer-in-chief? Would a Poilievre government cancel his Twitter account? Or play the game just as hard, if not harder?
So while I share the lament over troll farming as political discourse, is it simply an effect of instantaneous communication and the ascendancy of media management in the process of policy development and managing the relationship between government and public?
In other words, in our contemporary democracy, does trolling work? Especially, for low-info voters? Ford's PC's get a big majority with very low voter turn out and seemingly very low public attention. Is trolling simply a reflection of the misinfo/disinfo strategies which contemporary media makes so easy? What's the alternative to trolling low-info voters in the McLuhanesque global village?
I'll just take your word on Canadaland's selective editing of the interview. I listened to the original and Jesse's voice irritates me almost as much as it must irritate you. Still, full props for doing the "interview" in the first place and going in guns blazing right from the start.
Just a comment on the Lib government as a troll farm using media to "rile up an increasingly hard-left base" (Jerema) and to goad Conservative responses.
While I recognize as a government, rather than just a political party, there is a responsibility to govern, I wonder if it would not be more accurate to say that politics has become a landscape of troll farmers. So while Trudeau Libs seek to stir the pot on their own behalf, how, for example, have they contributed to the Cons apparent 400,000 membership drive at the same time? And is Poilievre not trying to become the troll farmer-in-chief? Would a Poilievre government cancel his Twitter account? Or play the game just as hard, if not harder?
So while I share the lament over troll farming as political discourse, is it simply an effect of instantaneous communication and the ascendancy of media management in the process of policy development and managing the relationship between government and public?
In other words, in our contemporary democracy, does trolling work? Especially, for low-info voters? Ford's PC's get a big majority with very low voter turn out and seemingly very low public attention. Is trolling simply a reflection of the misinfo/disinfo strategies which contemporary media makes so easy? What's the alternative to trolling low-info voters in the McLuhanesque global village?