the VERY FIRST THING Semafor did when it launched was to host a "trust in media" symposium where Ben Smith treated Tucker Carlson like a serious journalist

when people criticized Ben for platforming an authoritarian propagandist as a serious journalist at a TRUST IN NEWS symposium he simply mirrored tucker carlson's trademark confused labrador head tilt

So he has a VERY specific audience in mind.

LOL...and nobody smelled the get rich quick grift from the get-go?

but tucker is a serious journalist seriously bad

Tver Tucker? Are they trying to regain access to his leverage from before his fall, Epstein-like?

Pictures you can hear. That fake laugh, man. Weird stuff.

God, that still frame of Carlson. Such a phony over the top performance. An immediate blaring alarm bell screaming “I only operate in bad faith.” For anyone to try to push through an interview in this scenario is the height of naivety.

Doesn't @daveweigel.bsky.social write for Semafor? I thought it was a legit non-MSM outlet?

семафор you mean? Why else would they use the Russian spelling?

Not the point, I know, but did we ever find out why Tucker did the interview inside a closet?