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<p>Three days into <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/russia">Russia’s</a> full-scale invasion of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/ukraine">Ukraine</a>, I was bleeding out on a muddy lawn in front of a small salmon-colored house in Akhtyrka, north eastern Ukraine. I had been shot four times, two in the legs, one in the back and one in the left butt-cheek. My colleague <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-beast-reporters-emil-filtenborg-stefan-weichert-share-survival-story-of-getting-shot-in-ukraine">Stefan Weichert, who had been shot in the shoulder, was trying quite desperately to save my life</a>.</p>
<p>I’m telling you about this now because I was transported back to that moment when <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/tucker-carlson">Tucker Carlson</a>–the fired Fox News host—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-cronies-putin-tucker-interview-will-blow-up-us-election">claimed he was a journalist swooping in to finally deliver “the truth” </a>about what was happening in Ukraine via his interview with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/vladimir-putin">President Vladimir Putin</a>.</p>
<p>“Here’s why we’re doing it,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-makes-it-official-yep-im-interviewing-putin">Carlson explained in a video posted on X</a>. “First, because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.”</p>
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“Here’s why we’re doing it,” Carlson explained in a video posted on X. “First, because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.”
