[Salon] The US government denies Tucker Carlson the opportunity to interview Putin

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2023/die-us-regierung-verweigert-tucker-carlson-die-moeglichkeit-putin-zu-interviewen/

The US government denies Tucker Carlson the opportunity to interview Putin

from anti-mirror

25. September 2023

The television presenter noted that no one from the US media supported him when he expressed his desire for such an interview.

TASS, 25. September. The television presenter Tucker Carlson told the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche that he had tried to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, but had been prevented from doing so by the US government.

"I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, but the US government prevented me from doing so. Think about it," the journalist told the newspaper on Sunday, noting that no one in the US media supported his right as a journalist to report on the Russian leader's views on the Ukraine conflict.

He also said that the US government has been aggressively trying to gain control of all US media for decades, and that most media professionals are afraid to say something that could be uncomfortable for those in power.

On the 27th In August, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the television station RT, said in a broadcast of the television station Rossiya-1, Carlson had expressed the desire to interview Putin and asked to provide this information to the Russian head of state.