Did Zelenskyy get Tucker Carlson fired?
Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/1/2023 8:18:28 PM
Semaphor–Ben Smith’s new publication the founding of which led Smith to leave a cush post at The New York Times–is reporting that Rupert Murdoch and Volodymir Zelenskyy had a private conversation in March in which Zelenskyy expressed displeasure about Tucker Carlson’s commentary regarding the Ukraine war. There is nothing inherently nefarious about this sort of thing. It would be odd if he didn’t try to influence coverage of the war. Just as coaches in sports, one of the jobs of world leaders is to “work the refs” in order to get better outcomes for their team. Of course, one of the jobs of the refs is to ignore the coaches
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Did Zelenskyy get Tucker Carlson fired?
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Semaphor–Ben Smith’s new publication the founding of which led Smith to leave a cush post at The New York Times–is reporting that Rupert Murdoch and Volodymir Zelenskyy had a private conversation in March in which Zelenskyy expressed displeasure about Tucker Carlson’s commentary regarding the Ukraine war.
There is nothing inherently nefarious about this sort of thing. It would be odd if he didn’t try to influence coverage of the war.
Just as coaches in sports, one of the jobs of world leaders is to “work the refs” in order to get better outcomes for their team.
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