Putin Interview

[tomus42]

Election denier and Trump enabler Tucker Carlson is going to interview Putin. Can we expect anything balanced from this, or pro Russia, anti NATO propaganda for the digestion of the American electorate?

BBC News - Tucker Carlson to interview Russia's Putin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68223148

[ichkeria]

A very wise person once said that the role of propaganda is not  to make you believe something but to make you believe nothing. Even gobbledegook in this respect can work as "propaganda", as I think we have just witnessed. 

As for this car crash of an "interview" it backfired badly on Carlson: he looked by turns bemused, embarrassed and bored as Putin rambled and lied his way through the thing with a version of history that would have made Goebbels blush. There was talk of EU sanctions against the hapless Carlson: as far as I'm concerned they should  leave  him be: he's suffered enough 😂

[ichkeria]

"It'll be very damaging pro-Kremlin propaganda"

I got that very wrong!

[Canary42]

////Interesting to see I am personally attacked, no change there I suppose.////

Don't you start, we get enough self-pity from another certain gent.

And I repeat, for the umpteenth time, the Iron Lady's comment, "I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

 

 

[Ellipsis]

> Propaganda, in any context other than advertising, is the term for people encouraging intolerance.

>> No, it's defined as information that is misleading or deceptive

> It's cool, and I like it. I more than respect this determined connotation. The fact that falsehood may not be harmful is the greatest myth since ancient times.

It indeed can be harmful, which is why it's important speak out about it when it happens, and call it what it is: propaganda.

[tomus42]

Still, it's important to hear both sides apparently.