What? 'Contempt For Press Freedoms: US Officials Bar Tucker Carlson From Interviewing Putin'; is this reporting correct? “I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, but the U.S. government prevented me from
from doing so. Think about [the implications],”; the question I have is 'why'? what could Tucker uncover, provoke out of Putin? Is there that much contempt for freedom of the press by leftists? Biden?
‘Such obstructionism reflects a growing contempt on the part of officials in the United States and other supposedly liberal democratic countries for freedom of the press. It is merely the latest episode in a lengthening parade of restrictions, ranging from petty to truly alarming. The highest priority targets are critics who dare condemn or even dispute the accounts that Western leaders put forth regarding key foreign policy objectives
European Union governments have been even more brazen than Washington in their efforts to impede critics. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the EU banned the two most prominent Russian outlets, RT and Sputnik. The official rationale was that those organizations were Kremlin controlled and were disseminating “disinformation” regarding the war in Ukraine. EU officials even ordered the removal of RT and Sputnik material from search engines.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/contempt-press-freedoms-us-officials-bar-tucker-carlson-interviewing-putin
They are terrified of the American public hearing what Putin has to say to them.
Under what authority does the U.S. Administrative branch restrict the activities of “the press” with conduct ing interviews of foreign heads of state that we have not had a declaration of war declared by Congress?