NEWSWATCH Kyiv Post: “That was one lousy interview with Putin, Charlie Rose”

Vladimir Putin

The Kyiv Post critiques Vladimir Putin’s recent interview by Charlie Rose for CBS News’ 60 Minutes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year with his vast worldwide propaganda networks such as Russia Today.

All he needs to do is find more unprepared, ill-informed and poor interviewers such as Charlie Rose of the American “60 Minutes” news program on the CBS network. There are plenty of them out there.

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it’s not just journalists like Rose who don’t know how to treat Putin. The paralysis extends to politicians and diplomats all over the world, including the frequently flummoxed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Unfortunately, the world’s governments and institutions — including the UN – don’t know what to do about he criminal in their midst.

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Either Rose didn’t do any research beforehand or his researchers and producers let him down. Either way, he’s to blame. He also conducted the interview in an alternatively fawning and silly manner. …

Click here for Kyiv Post/Brian Bonner: “That was one lousy interview with Putin, Charlie Rose”

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