Tucker Carlson to Interview Putin
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I disagree with a lot of this. The "journalists" calling Tucker a "diminished figure" are corporate mouthpieces who will never sniff an interview of this magnitude. The interview with Putin will be more viewed than anything he ever did with Fox News. I don't follow him regularly, but just scrolling through his twitter feed it looks like his show episodes typically get more views than the highest rated shows on Fox. As it turns out, the rest of the media following Fox News' example and aiming for the lowest common denominator isn't really sustainable.
Tucker's not on the same level as Howard Stern/Jon Stewart/Bill O'Reilly when it comes to talent as an interviewer, but he did a decent job. Asked Putin questions that I would think most Americans would want to be asked. I didn't see anything in the interview that I'd consider a dereliction of journalistic duty (something he did regularly on Fox News). I'd love for him to interview Zelensky in the same manner, but I doubt the US State Department will let him do an interview that isn't meant to propagandize their war effort. The Putin interview already has over 50M views. Zelensky would probably love to have his message out to that many people.
Putin's answers weren't anything that he hasn't said in front of a camera the last two years. Lots of realpolitik and a bit of Nazism in Ukraine as a bogeyman. I was happy to see that Carlson pushed him on using that argument as a justification for invasion. I was very surprised that Carlson also spent 10 minutes of the interview arguing with Putin for the release of an American political prisoner. I just can't see a corporate journalist arguing with Putin like Carlson did there. Many of those worthless journalists were calling him a traitor for simply doing the interview, and they wonder why people stopped listening to them.
And I disagree with a lot of this
- you could easily argue the other journalists, the ones you're calling "mouthpieces", aren't getting an interview with Putin because Putin knows that's not the best avenue for him. He wants entrenched in the far right of American politics, Tucker has that audience and wants views. Putin isn't there cuz Tucker is some award winning spectacular journalist (he's as much of a mouthpiece and anyone you were grouping in before). Putin is there to mainline propaganda to the audience he wants to reach.
- it is well known at this point that Twitter views don't come close to equating to YouTube views. Just an instance in a feed where it's partially visible is a view. Then throw in the fact there's a lot of smoke around Elon boosting view count on things he wants to succeed (Tucker, that one Mr Beat video, etc). That view count is meaningless as a comparison to traditional media or even YouTube. Tucker was basically the face of Fox News. On in nursing homes across the nation. He's absolutely fallen back to Earth.
- I've seen some things with Tucker since he left where he seems like much less of hardcore right. But then again we know a lot of that was him playing a character based on Fox News's case with Dominion. I'll need to watch the interview. Hopefully it is less egregious than what it will be if he were still on Fox.
- I do agree that an independent journalist will have more freedom to do something like this and to push the interview in different directions. The pros and cons of less oversight.
Not exactly the same vein, but I've been enjoying all of the content Channel 5 has been pushing out
And I disagree with a lot of this
- you could easily argue the other journalists, the ones you're calling "mouthpieces", aren't getting an interview with Putin because Putin knows that's not the best avenue for him. He wants entrenched in the far right of American politics, Tucker has that audience and wants views. Putin isn't there cuz Tucker is some award winning spectacular journalist (he's as much of a mouthpiece and anyone you were grouping in before). Putin is there to mainline propaganda to the audience he wants to reach.
- it is well known at this point that Twitter views don't come close to equating to YouTube views. Just an instance in a feed where it's partially visible is a view. Then throw in the fact there's a lot of smoke around Elon boosting view count on things he wants to succeed (Tucker, that one Mr Beat video, etc). That view count is meaningless as a comparison to traditional media or even YouTube. Tucker was basically the face of Fox News. On in nursing homes across the nation. He's absolutely fallen back to Earth.
- I've seen some things with Tucker since he left where he seems like much less of hardcore right. But then again we know a lot of that was him playing a character based on Fox News's case with Dominion. I'll need to watch the interview. Hopefully it is less egregious than what it will be if he were still on Fox.
- I do agree that an independent journalist will have more freedom to do something like this and to push the interview in different directions. The pros and cons of less oversight.
Not exactly the same vein, but I've been enjoying all of the content Channel 5 has been pushing out
The audience for this interview will include much more than "the far right of American politics." What would you have liked him to ask instead? I personally would've liked to see him push Putin on Prigozhin and Wagner.
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Way more in this "Interview" than folk realize.
Not going to go into them here, or even at this time.
What people should be taking note of is that our "Presidents" aren't running things, our alphabet Agencies our.
At least outside of Trump, and possibly Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan - yeah, I said Nixon, there's more coming to light on that as things get exposed (even posted something on it recently).
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He definitely got a lot of views, but you're comparing apples to oranges. The threshold for a "view" is not the same across those platforms
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He definitely got a lot of views, but you're comparing apples to oranges. The threshold for a "view" is not the same across those platforms
He definitely got a lot of views, but you're comparing apples to oranges. The threshold for a "view" is not the same across those platforms
Why is this dude stuck on nerd explaining views?
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He definitely got a lot of views, but you're comparing apples to oranges. The threshold for a "view" is not the same across those platforms
Why is this dude stuck on nerd explaining views?
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Pro-Russia party. MAGA the stupidest cult in modern history.
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Thank God someone cares enough. Shame the dumbass cult has a problem with that.
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Thank God someone cares enough. Shame the dumbass cult has a problem with that.
Thank God someone cares enough. Shame the dumbass cult has a problem with that.
That you cult members think Tucker is a journalist is the hilarious.
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He would NEVER have been politically falsely arrested while Pres Trump was president.
but America is so weak and divideded and corrupted.... we are easy prey.
btw, NOTE: our gov with dems in so much power - are falsely politically prosecuting republicans and conservatives and Christians and parents.... a lot like communists do.
think on that.
The first US journalist was just arrested in Russia since the Cold War
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia, explained.
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Thank God someone cares enough. Shame the dumbass cult has a problem with that.
Thank God someone cares enough. Shame the dumbass cult has a problem with that.
Remember when that weasel Chris Wallace left CNN to join CNN+ their new streaming service?
Then a week later CNN axed it? ???
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In a world where things are hard to believe due to news sound clips, networks editorializing news stories, this is actually very believable.
It's disgusting.
Vote 3rd party folks. Send these uni-party idiots to the curb.
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He's right. Been like this for a long time.
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