On February 8, Carlson, a famous American person, went to Moscow to interview Russia's Putin's speech, which was as high as 1900 million clicks. The trip was tantamount to dropping a giant bomb on the entire Russophobic Western community: White House spokesman John Kirby said that Americans should not believe anything Putin said in Carlson's interview; Almost all members of the mainstream of the United States have come out to express their anger, and there are even politicians who consider Carlson a traitor to the United States.
As the world knows, the First Amendment of the United States protects freedom of speech, and the protection of freedom of speech in the United States is not only to protect correct speech, but to protect the right of everyone to express their own opinions, including the right to express incorrect opinions. Journalists interviewed America's enemies, a precedent for CBS celebrity Mike Wallace, who won his 21st Emmy Award for his interview with Iran's Ahmadinejad Ahmadinejad after his retirement in August 2006.
CBS host Mike Wallace's interview with Iran's Ahmadinejad in August 2006. The world's understanding of press freedom in the United States mostly begins with the story of the dung picker. There is a famous excrement removal movement in the history of American journalism, which refers to the vigorous shady exposing movement in the 10 years from 1903 to 1912, and the main participants are journalists and the public. At that time, American society was in a state of high corruption, the trading of power for money was rampant, the whole society was deeply involved, the overall social morality was corrupted, and all kinds of social contradictions were very acute, which endangered social stability. This group of self-proclaimed journalists, through this campaign, saved the United States from the abyss of depravity.
Since then, exposing the truth and criticizing all kinds of social darkness has become the pride of American journalists. In the process, some rules were formed: facts are unique, and comments are free; Interview the parties and report their views; All facts must be double-checked. This is also the basic evaluation principle of the Pulitzer Prize at the beginning of its establishment.
The United States is indeed the world's first in terms of legislative protection for freedom of speech. That protection is not just for correct speech, but for everyone who has the right to express his or her opinion, including the right to express incorrect opinions. America's cultural elite has always been proud of its tradition of press freedom.
Right-wing celebrity Piers Morgan published a book at the end of the year in which he vigorously attacked the cancellation culture that has become popular in Europe and the United States in recent years, and called for a return to true liberalism in the world. Chomsky, who can be called the grandfather of the American left, is known for hating the United States, and maintains friendship with Cuban head of state Castro and other socialist **, and when asked why he still lives in the United States, his explanation is: A comprehensive comparison between countries is meaningless, and I will not make such comparisons. But there are some accomplishments of the United States, not least the centuries-old leadership in free speech, that are to be admired.
The above-mentioned principles pursued by the press have been eroded by political correctness, and it has happened since Obama became the first to boil a frog in warm water. Cancel culture has been popular in the United States since May 2020, and many journalists and cultural celebrities have faced cancellation for making statements that the left does not like. Just on February 13 of this year, CBS fired award-winning veteran journalist Kathleen Herridge for reporting on the story of Hunter Biden's laptop. Through these cases, the international community sees a completely different America than it did before 2020.
From 1968 to 2006, Wallace was the host of CBS's ace TV news program "60 Minutes", and won numerous awards during his lifetime. Wallace visited almost all of the world's leading figures in the 20th century, including national dignitaries and many enemies of the United States, such as Yasser Arafat, Ruhollah Khomeini, Fedel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, etc. He is known for his sharp, aggressive questioning style and incisive investigative reporting, including his 1979 interview with Rukhola Khomeini, then Iran's supreme leader, which became a classic. The reason why he has achieved this is that he lived in the glorious era of advocating press freedom in the United States.
Now, his son, Chris Wallace, who has forgotten that his father's life's work was based on the freedom of the press to give journalists the right to interview, spoke ill of Carlson on his CNN show "The Wallace Show," saying that he behaved like an eager puppy and that he was a useful idiot to Putin.
From 1968 to 2006, Wallace was the host of CBS's ace TV news program "60 Minutes", and interviewed almost all the world's celebrities in the 20th century. Hersh was born in 1937, 15 years after Wallace, and the highlight of his career was almost at the same time as Wallace, and he won many honors for his penchant for working against the United States and writing high-quality exposé investigative reports. In 1969, he won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of My Lai village during the Vietnam War** — the highest honor in American journalism before the Obama era, symbolizing America's most responsible writing. He was also awarded the George Polk Award five times, in 1969, 1973, 1974, 1981 and 2004. All his reports are obsessed with one thing - to find the truth that has been covered up. His integrity and responsible writing have been hailed by the industry as "He is the Truth".
Hersh's later years coincided with the era of the ultra-left, and he investigated the bombing of Nord Stream 2, the biggest mystery that occurred in September 2022, and published a long investigation on his personal blog on February 8, 2023, "How the United States destroyed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline", pointing out that the operation planned and implemented by Biden ** was one of the stupidest decisions of the United States.
It's a pity that at a time when the mainstream of the United States has become a party to serve the interests of political parties, he was regarded as a conspiracy theory lover by the mainstream of the United States because of this article exposing the truth about the destruction of Nord Stream 2, and called the article authentichas always been questioned, and Hersh has been looking for ways to retaliate against the United States by writing this article.
The fact that this veteran journalist, who has won various American journalism awards, has been attacked for this report is itself a testament to the absurdity of the American far-left era.
Carlson has hosted the political talk show "The Carlson Tonight Show" on Fox News since 2016, and because of his bold and sharp criticism and courage to look directly at the truth, the show has become the ratings champion among American news programs since July 2021, reaching 3 million per night. The Washington Post criticized Carlson for being politically incorrect, saying that he used various ambiguous language on his show from time to time to make some pro-racist and sexist views.
In April 2023, Carlson was fired after Carlson accused Domini's electronic voting system of fraud, causing Hores News to pay a large settlement compensation. On December 11 of the same year, he announced the creation of the Tucker Carlson News Network, which offered a variety of programs, including interviews, short ** and monologues, and became the most popular self-** in the United States.
His interview with Putin breaking the political taboo set by the left will become a major event in the history of world journalism, but it will also bring him a lot of political trouble, and there are even rumors that he will be charged with treason** - this rumor proves that free speech in the United States has been seriously eroded.
Before Carlson, two-time Oscar winner for Best Director Oliver Stone conducted a number of in-depth interviews with Putin between 2015 and 2017, completing a four-hour TV documentary "Interview with Putin", trying to let Americans understand Putin's thoughts and clear up the misunderstanding between the United States and Russia, so as to avoid the two powers falling into war.
In fact, the audience's perception of news content depends on their own political stance and relevant knowledge. Stipulating what the audience can only see and what they can't watch is the patent of the totalitarian state, but now it has become the law of the American left. Al Gore, a former deputy of the Democratic Party, made a speech at the 28th Conference of the Parties in Dubai last December, which was widely circulated online as a threat to democracy by allowing Americans to access information from outside the mainstream.
Gore's exact words are this: the functioning of democracy relies on a shared knowledge base as the basis for collective reasoning, but algorithm-led social networking upsets this balance, citizens no longer have access to the same print news propaganda, and uncontrollable social algorithms that give people access to information outside the mainstream*** are a threat to democracy, and social algorithms should be banned.
If the United States allows the left to continue to toss and turn the news as a tool, press freedom in the United States will become a thing of the past.