re: Tucker Carlson: why I’m interviewing Putin

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I must have misunderstood a post or two of yours (can happen), because I thought you were arguing it was risky/irresponsible for TC to do this interview.

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It is the same level of journalistic responsibility that we get from our mainstream media in general. Which is a pitfall of a profit-driven media.

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Okay, but what's the problem with it? If there's bad information or lies out there, that can be pointed out/argued.

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Well, given the last few years, trying an objective, fact-based approach isn't the strategy to use to win people's minds. It is just a curious feature of modern media why Russian viewpoints about NATO expansion, for example, are in the Western mainstream, when those claims were expressed by the Russians and rebutted by the US and allies in the 1990's, with endless documents and diplomatic cables which all say the same thing. Yet that documentary evidence isn't enough to sway opinion that the US made some vague promise to the Russians about NATO expansion.