It was one of the more unexpected takeaways of the night: in the age of six-second videos and frenetic social media posts around the clock, primetime set-piece television can still land a punch. Fifty years ago, the Senate Watergate committee made TV history with its raw, spontaneously chaotic but revelatory hearings into Richard Nixon’s election subversion. The hearing was primetime TV at its most impactful. Not that social media was neglected. Carlson had his own pithy social media pitch.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2022 04:55 UTC