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‪Does political communication come down exclusively to the media communication of “political power”? If we are to believe the academic literature, it is clear that a broad consensus has long existed on this point. How to explain it? And how can we ignore that such evidence leads both to concealing whole swathes of reality and to promoting a somewhat misleading vision? After re-entering the genesis of the “political communication” object, the article engages three explanatory hypotheses: media-centrism, the hold of beliefs about “political power”, the division of scientific labor and the coercive structuring of knowledge production spaces. Ultimately, the criticism invites us to reconsider the object, to modify the way we look at it in order to broaden the field of research undertaken to include many other phenomena.‪