Newsweek retracts claim about Tucker Carlson starting Russian TV show
Newsweek corrected its article about Tucker Carlson allegedly launching a show on Russian state TV. The original piece claimed Carlson’s show was aired on Russia 24 in Russian. However, it was updated to clarify that no such launch occurred. The Tucker Carlson Network emphasized the inaccuracy and lack of legal permission for using their content on the channel. Newsweek rectified an article regarding Tucker Carlson supposedly debuting a show on Russian state TV. Initially stating his show aired on Russia 24 in Russian, the article was revised to confirm no such debut took place. The Tucker Carlson Network highlighted inaccuracies and unauthorized use of their content by the channel.
Newsweek was forced to issue an update to an article it wrote about Tucker Carlson that claimed he launched his own show on Russian state television.
The original piece from Newsweek was titled “Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV” and cited how footage of his show on X had been played on Russia 24 dubbed in the Russian language. As of Tuesday afternoon, however, the outlet has updated the piece to clarify that Carlson has made no such launch, changing the article’s title to “Tucker Carlson show aired by Russian state TV.”
“That Newsweek story is totally false,” read a statement from the Tucker Carlson Network’s head of programming given to the Washington Examiner. “Any use of our content by that channel is without legal permission.”
Likewise, TCN CEO Neil Patel wrote on X that the network “has not done any deals with state media in any country” and that the outlet claiming it had should have checked before publishing its story.
The Tucker Carlson Network has not done any deals with state media in any country. Whoever is currently pretending to be the old Newsweek brand would know that if they had checked with us before printing like news companies are supposed to do. https://t.co/xbukz58F88
— Neil Patel (@NeilPatelTDC) May 21, 2024
Russia state television airing clips from Carlson’s show comes a few months after he interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking the Kremlin’s first interview with a journalist based in the United States since the start of the war in Ukraine. During the interview, Putin claimed that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine had “an element of a civil war,” as Putin has previously claimed that the people of Russia and Ukraine are “one people.”
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Putin later stated that he did not get “full satisfaction” with his interview with Carlson, as he was expecting the talk show host to act more “aggressively” toward him and ask “so-called sharp questions.” The Kremlin did note he was taken aback by Carlson’s patience in the interview, something he was not expecting from “a Western journalist.”
In December, Carlson launched his own streaming platform called the Tucker Carlson Network, which includes free interviews to watch and other interviews locked behind a monthly subscription.
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