Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey search for the superpower of the USA

In terms of media strategy, it was a tightrope act when Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey in a studio in Michigan on Thursday and, under the motto “Unite for America,” searched with her for the superpower that had once been the founding myth of the USA, its lowest common denominator. In the past, that was television. Actually, it used to be the flag, the constitution and the English language. After more than an hour and a half of mobilizing the sense of community, a new triad emerged: worries, hardships, despair. And this time it was not television as a medium that united the nation. Oprah (in America she goes by no surname) founded her own channel after the end of her legendary talk show in 2011 and regularly conducts interviews and discussions on special topics. However, she had set up a YouTube channel especially for this event. In keeping with the Buggles-Song „Streamingvideo killed the Television Star?“