Tucker Carlson: The Vladimir Putin Interview

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[–]tomatopotato★ Free Assange ★ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Whether I agree with him or not, I'm glad that Putin got a pretty big microphone to work with, and that a lot of people got to hear something from the guy firsthand for the first time, people who might otherwise just keep humming along inside the mainstream bubble.

That said, I don't want to say it was rehearsed - and I'm not saying rehearsal/preparation is bad at all, especially if you have an important message - but it still felt really made-for-TV. I don't want the constant camera changes. I don't want it to be simultaneously interpreted. It feels like a bit of a dis-service to the content. Not to rag on the the guy interpreting, as he seemed pretty good. But I feel like a lot of stuff gets lost when trying to maintain pace with a speaker who obviously has a ton of stuff to say. They should have native interpreters for both sides who have some freedom to pause as needed and double check to make sure things gets across as accurately as possible. If it takes 5 hours, so be it. They can provided the edited version later for people with short attention spans. Something like this deserves to be done more methodically/accurately. It's not like this is the 20th century and they gotta pretend it's 60 Minutes. Whiteboards, Powerpoint LibreOffice Impress, multi-feeds, whatever they need to communicate more effectively rather than more quickly.

[–]sdl5 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For ghis part- This is really how Putin responds to live questions, lol

He's been known to sit for many more hours taking live calls from the public, reporter questions, expert queries, and fire off incredibly detailed thoughtful and complex answers that most of us would spend a week of intense focused research and writing up our notes to come half as close.

Personally, I think he has a steel trap mind for retaining info combined with Asperger's.

[–]Maniak🥃😾[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The 'real-time' interpreting was annoying, but at least they edited it to make the translated audio closer to those spoken by Putin. Not quite in parallel but close (and yeah, there were a few holes that would imply that there's been some losses)

Putin obviously prepared for the interview, but that's a good thing because as you said, it's the first time for many to hear him speak. And effectively, this was him speaking as directly as he could to the western audience who's been told for years/decades that he's some kind of murderous violent mania... er... dictator.

It would be nice if this was the start of more frequent interviews with western independent media, but it may also be the only one. Doing it in a "shoot from the hip" way would have been a disservice for everybody. So sure, it sounds prepared because it was, but it had to be.

Not seeing signs of rehearsing involving the production team though. If only because if there had been rehearsals in a corporate media-type manufacturing process, the initial history lesson wouldn't have been done this way :)

Would it have been better over 5 hours? Sure, but it's already going to be difficult enough to get brainwashed western zombies to hear more than 2 seconds so... one step at a time.

Here's hoping that this is a start.

[–]tomatopotato★ Free Assange ★ 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a good point. I also hope we see more of these, and a period of greater mutual interest and curiosity in general, and in particular from subjects of the empire. I have a feeling more than a few of my friends have (hopefully only temporarily) become the zombies you refer to, swallowing the boogie man story, but never having bothered to read or hear anything from the man, the fellow human being himself.