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What good reason is there for the president to not simply communicate via whitehouse.gov or equivalent?

You might argue that it has lesser reach compared to a major social media site, but there are countless individuals and organizations that would jump to be the first one posting a link to a presidential address on social media sites.



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Does presidential power come from social media?

Presidents should not use social media, in my view. They have too much power and too much reach.

A simple TV broadcast should be good enough.


> he should post this statement on the White Houses's site

All "microblog" type posts made by a president should be posted directly through the White House's own web site, and not be communications through a commercial service.


If only the President had some sort of way to get a message out…perhaps something like a conference…with the press…I don’t know, it’s obviously an idea ripe for disruption.

(Or he could post a message to the White House website.)


Perhaps the president wants a more direct mode of communication? I bet that has better response with the public.

He can make statements from the White House. The White House, the house of Government of the United States, global hegemonic power still massively powerful even in an increasingly multipolar world.

If he has something important to say as the President of the United States, he can make an official statement as a head of state.

Nothing to be sorry about him losing a social media account.


The claim I'm responding to asks if the President would have trouble getting a message out, and obviously the answer is yes for some types of messages.

Which is the main medium that US president uses for communication with public.

Information needs to move fast today. It was the norm for news to travel slowly in the past. Today the president needs to be able to speak quickly to people.

Besides whitehouse.gov, which he should've been using, he has no other way to quickly, directly communicate to any constituent that wants to see his message.


He's the President. If he published somewhere else, such as his own government funded website, people would read him there.

Could it be because the message is literally from the President, in their ex officio role as the President?

Presidents have all kinds of privileges that others don’t. Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished? To me the problem is not the platform but the fact that they have such exceptional privilege to begin with.

Eh. It is the primary communication mode for the current US president.

> The US has had a president who largely communicated with his constituents through Twitter (one-way as that communication may have been)...

I know what you're trying to say here, but I just want to note for the record that all presidents communicate primarily with their constituents in a one way fashion.

In other words, that president was unique primarily in platform, not mode.


presidential communications?

I have used president@whitehouse.gov since the late 90s

That arguably changes when the President starts to use it as a primary means of communication with the citizenry.

Are you suggesting the President is incapable of other forms of communication?

A: No he does not. The White House can talk as much as it likes, but without the press to actually disseminate the words no one will hear them.

If Newspapers, TV, and YouTube (etc) all refused to carry the words what other avenue does the President have? An emergency alert to mobile phones?

And B: That doesn't answer the question posed. The question is not about the President, it's about a political dissident in general.


Surprising that people don't flex to the President's preferred style of communication. If he clearly doesn't want an e-mail, don't send him one.
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