A spokesperson for the Russian government clarified that it has rejected requests to interview Vladimir Putin from reputable media outlets
The Kremlin’s first public response to Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he’s landed an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin was to fact-check the former Fox News host.
On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Carlson had indeed interviewed Putin, but took issue with Carlson’s claim that “not a single Western journalist has bothered” to interview Russia’s president throughout the nation’s war with Ukraine, which has raged for more than two years.
When a “journalist” says that “[X] all but happens” it can be interpreted reliably as “X did not happen”
it literally quotes the minister saying they have deliberately denied access to “major” news organizations, and then draws the conclusion from Carlsons previous “softball” interviews that this was only approved because it’s useful to Russia.
What conclusion do you draw?