Notices by Anselm Bühling (abuehling@zirk.us)

@liztai An actual journalist should do more than asking a question once in a while when he is allowed to. He should be prepared. He should know who he is talking to and what he is talking about. He should not let the interviewed person monologize for half an hour, and he should be able to confront them with the facts where necessary.

@liztai Putinˋs perspective obviously matters. He’s the one who started this war after all. He has layed it out before in an essay and a couple of speeches, which have all been translated into English and other languages.
Just don’t call this interview „actual journalism“. That’s definitely not what it is. And we should not be blind about what both Putin and Carlson are trying to achieve here.

@liztai Nothing to be surprised here. His interview request has been hand-picked by the Kremlin precisely because they hadn’t to be afraid that he would actually be doing journalism.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/moscow-confirms-putin-interview-with-tucker-carlson