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Tucker Carlsson’s interview with Putin, or the end of traditional media that survive on public contributions

Let's go back to talking about Tucker Carlsson's interview with Vladimir Putin , but not for its contents, but for what it represents in the world of communication.

When we talk about "Freedom of speech" and "Free information" we actually need to consider two facts:

  • first of all that publishing is paid and subsidized by the state or supranational authorities. Taking the case of Italy, but elsewhere it is the same, the state has paid 140 million euros in contributions to publishing. Nations regulate commercial TV licenses, can deny them or make them more complex;
  • as the Disney / X case demonstrates, large companies think they are able to blackmail the media through advertising and very often they succeed. Not to mention publishers who carry out other activities and invest in publishing only to protect their other interests: in Italy we have the example of Exor.

To remember the weight of Italian newspapers on a population of 60 million citizens , Corriere della Sera sold 160 thousand copies a day and Repubblica 90 thousand, including online subscriptions.

Do you know how many views of Tucker Carlsson's interview there were? Let's see his original post on X

The original post alone had 173 million views. Not everyone will have seen the two-hour interview but many have seen at least part of it. Furthermore, there have been numerous translations, including into Italian. The various Italian versions with subtitles have probably had more views than there are readers of Repubblica or Corriere. Davide Scifo's vision alone that we reported on Scenari Economici had 32 thousand views.

What's the point of paying Repubblica or Il Corriere when, through social media and some good independent journalists, you can make your voice reach everywhere and let people build their own opinion directly. Trump had already partially succeeded in this work, but then he was kicked out of social media, so he closed himself in his own little garden of Truth.

Therefore, beyond the contents, Tucker Carlsson has demonstrated that the little garden of tamed and controlled information can be overcome, indeed perhaps it must be overcome, and this could, in the future, lead to a real revolution.


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/lintervista-di-tucker-carlsson-a-putin-ovvero-la-fine-dei-media-tradizionali-che-sopravvivono-di-contributi-pubblici/ on Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:37:16 +0000.