Chris Hayes about why Donald Trump and Elon Musk thrive in the time of attention
Chris Hayes Starting the third week hosting MSNBC in the new golden hour, All in, When the tragedy occurs in Boston. He recalled that the deadly bombing in the marathon and the search later became a “scene” of TV that dominated the news for about a month. However, at the beginning this The following month, he said, “A guy holding an IS flag killed 14 people” in a truck attack on the new year in New Orleans and the story quickly fainted.
Hayes said: “It is myth when comparing Boston with that place. He noted that a worrying warning is that people “have become familiar with mass violence, such as shooting at school”, thus improving the criteria of commanding and collecting stories. attract public attention. However, he said, there is still “feeling nothing to stick” related to Donald Trump, Those who have both promoted and benefit from today Super speed news cycle.
When I met Hayes for breakfast at Park Slope, Brooklyn, it was still 10 days before Trump will return Go to the White House and, once again, dominate the reporting on the media by filling the area Executive order And speech. But the 47th president – as well as Elon Musk—A is an inevitable topic in the conversation with coffee and eggs that morning based on the theme of Hayes’s latest book: attention.
“I think these are two people who understand the importance of attention at almost cells, partly due to their strange and damaged personality,” he said. He added, they “found this core truth, that attention is the most valuable resource in our time and you should do whatever you can to get.”
While Hayes faced the additional gift on our screen in his upcoming release, Call of an alarm, He started to return a few thousand years ago with “Odyssey”, recalling the scene of Odysseus to be tied to the mast of a ship to prevent him from being drawn to a fascinating song singing by an alarm, the students. Mythology is famous for its ability to attract sailors to them. collapse. Hayes wrote: “The siren in legends and the siren of the urban street landscape all attracted our attention to our will.” “And that experience, causing our mind to be captured by that mourning, now our permanent state, our fate in life.”
Throughout the book, Hayes revolves around the big ideas from philosophers (Plato, Pascal, Marx), media theorists like the late Neil Postman – a famous work in 1985, Make me happy to death, Feeling especially prophetic at the beginning of a president of other reality programs – and some profound thinkers from the early days of the Internet. Hayes made a chart of the information age that turned into an era of attention, an era that was dominated by things like Amazon and Apple and in which the attention “now has been goods and possibly be traded, buy and sell in complex, instant algorithm auctions for a second. ” The focus of our eyes. “
However, Hayes is also very personal, when pondering about trying to control the use time of his children – as well as his own – and revealing aspects of his career life Because, as he told me, his “whole work” was “attracting the attention of everyone. “That experience as the cable TV show” developed ideas that was finally included in the theory in the book, “he said,” This book is almost almost almost is the final product of all the thoughts that I do every day, continuously, on this issue. Crafts, and about how we attract the attention of everyone as well as how to end a monologue and what in order. ” And he said, the process of writing the book made him consider making online changes. Hayes said: “I want to perform more thorough tests and I think people will enjoy it.” “It is like a determination in the new year.”
It is not surprising that Hayes’s network owners are also thinking a lot about what is attracting the attention of people. The ranking of the previous night – the “numbers” as they were mentioned within 30 rock – carefully considered when shared at about 4:15 pm. “It’s like getting a point every day,” he wrote, “But a point you wear on your forehead when walking around the school.” However, it is surprising that Hayes has not checked his own ranking since 2020.
He said: “During Covid, I just finished checking. “And I will tell you why: Sometimes I started to feel tense about them. And then I thought, it was a pandemic, my friend. We have a role in citizens’ health – and physically – of the nation. In the great plan of everything, it doesn’t matter. And I am worried about it doesn’t help me. So I will try to do my job as well as possible. And I have been with that for 5 years. ”
