Putin, the Protocol and the Press
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
There is too much news today. Frankly.
Putin tried to convince a domestic audience that NATO started the war in Ukraine, Rishi Sunak tried to face down Tory doubters telling him to drop his Northern Ireland deal, and the press and media are mulling over how to respond to accusations of intrusion by Nicola Bulley's grieving family.
We hear from Northern Ireland Shadow Secretary Peter Kyle, Putin's former speechwriter Abbas Gallyanov, and former Head of News at ITN and formerly of broadcasting regulator Ofcom's Stewart Purvis.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | If you're a regular listener to the newsagents and if you're not, why not, you will know that we tend to do kind of one or maybe two topics during the course of the podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | Today we came into Newsagents HQ and we decided there were about 35 topics we wanted to discuss |
| 0:29.5 | because the news seemed to be never-ending and there were so many great stories out there. |
| 0:34.4 | We spent about four hours in our editorial meeting. |
| 0:37.2 | Everyone like a balloon debate sort of sitting around the table, |
| 0:39.9 | pitching for the story that they thought was the one that encapsulated the day best. |
| 0:44.1 | And I suppose inevitably, we've ended up trying to look at a lot of material today |
| 0:50.2 | because there is so much to discuss. |
| 0:53.0 | We talked about whether you can lead Scotland if you |
| 0:56.4 | don't believe that people should have children outside marriage. And we look at the press's |
| 1:02.7 | relationship with regulators in the light of the statement from Nicola Bully's family. But we wanted to |
| 1:10.4 | start off far away from the Democratic editorial table with this man. |
| 1:15.9 | President of Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimir Putin. A bit more from him in a moment. |
| 1:33.6 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:38.1 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:40.2 | It's John. |
| 1:41.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:42.1 | And we are at Newsagents HQ, where we have been listening throughout the course of the morning to Vladimir Putin with his annual address. I'd love to say, you'll never guess what he said. Actually, there's no point in doing that because what he said, a lot of it was very predictable indeed. |
| 2:02.8 | A lot of violently anti-West rhetoric that everyone was to blame but Russia. |
| 2:09.3 | And Russia was defenseless and was trying to defend itself in the face of NATO aggression. |
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