News X (India) raises the game: panel discussions get serious

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News X (India) raises the game:   panel discussions get serious

As readers of these pages know, a couple of weeks ago I was prepared to throw in the towel and accept no further requests to participate in on air panel discussions hosted by the relative newcomer to international English language broadcasting from India, News X. The reason was simple: the low level of participants whom they had scooped up so far. If I am outnumbered 3:1 by propagandists for the Kiev regime, that is bad enough. But if those propagandists are inexperienced or incapable debaters, the whole exercise is a waste of everyone’s time.

I stated my position to News X directly by phone.  One of their producers asked my forbearance, saying that they were busy trying to improve their programming, that they expect to host Prime Minister Modi to a special forum in March at which they officially launch their international service.

Indeed, the two News X shows of the past week which I joined were a big improvement in terms of the credibility and functionality of my debating opponent (singular). Regrettably, I did not receive from them the internet link to the first session. But here below is the link to the debate recorded yesterday with a very capable propagandist for the Keir Starmer view of the world, Keith Vaz, a former official in the British foreign office and present-day chair of the Integration Foundation, London.

You will note the condescending tone of Vaz in speaking of Trump, which totally ignores the coordinated and highly sophisticated actions of Team Trump in Riyadh (Rubio, Witkoff, Waltz), in Brussels (Pete Hegseth) and in Munich (J.D. Vance) over the past ten days.

I invite you to enjoy our exchange.

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

News X (Indien) hebt das Niveau: Podiumsdiskussionen werden ernst

Wie die Leser dieser Seiten wissen, war ich vor ein paar Wochen bereit, das Handtuch zu werfen und keine weiteren Anfragen zur Teilnahme an Podiumsdiskussionen zu akzeptieren, die vom relativen Newcomer im internationalen englischsprachigen Rundfunk aus Indien, News X, live übertragen werden. Der Grund war einfach: die geringe Anzahl der Teilnehmer, die sie bisher aufgetrieben hatten. Wenn ich Propagandisten des Kiewer Regimes gegenüberstehe, die mir zahlenmäßig 3:1 überlegen sind, ist das schon schlimm genug. Wenn diese Propagandisten jedoch unerfahrene oder unfähige Debattierer sind, ist die ganze Übung eine reine Zeitverschwendung für alle Beteiligten.

Ich habe News X direkt telefonisch meine Position mitgeteilt. Einer ihrer Produzenten bat mich um Nachsicht und sagte, dass sie damit beschäftigt seien, ihr Programm zu verbessern, und dass sie erwarten, Premierminister Modi im März zu einem Sonderforum einzuladen, auf dem sie offiziell ihren internationalen Dienst starten.

Tatsächlich waren die beiden News X-Sendungen der vergangenen Woche, an denen ich teilgenommen habe, eine große Verbesserung in Bezug auf die Glaubwürdigkeit und Funktionalität meines Debattiergegners (Einzahl). Leider habe ich von ihnen keinen Internetlink zur ersten Sitzung erhalten. Aber hier unten ist der Link zu der gestern aufgezeichneten Debatte mit einem sehr fähigen Propagandisten für die Weltsicht von Keir Starmer, Keith Vaz, einem ehemaligen Beamten im britischen Außenministerium und heutigen Vorsitzenden der Integration Foundation, London.

Sie werden den herablassenden Ton bemerken, in dem Vaz über Trump spricht, der die koordinierten und hochentwickelten Aktionen des Trump-Teams in Riad (Rubio, Witkoff, Waltz), in Brüssel (Pete Hegseth) und in München (J.D. Vance) in den letzten zehn Tagen völlig ignoriert.

Ich lade Sie ein, unseren Austausch zu genießen.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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