Quelques jours après son départ de la chaîne Fox News, le présentateur conservateur Tucker Carlson annonce qu'il va diffuser sa nouvelle émission sur le réseau social Twitter - Regardez
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00:00 Hey, it's Tucker Carlson.
00:02 You often hear people say the news is full of lies.
00:05 But most of the time, that's not exactly right.
00:07 Much of what you see on television or read in the New York Times is in fact true in
00:12 the literal sense.
00:13 You could pass one of the media's own fact checks.
00:16 Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it.
00:17 In fact, they may have.
00:19 But that doesn't make it true.
00:20 It's not true.
00:22 At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most
00:27 insidious kind.
00:29 The facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective.
00:33 You are being manipulated.
00:34 How does that work?
00:36 Let's see.
00:37 If I tell you that a man has been unjustly arrested for armed robbery, that is not, strictly
00:41 speaking, a lie.
00:43 He may have been framed.
00:44 At this point, there's been no trial, so no one can really say.
00:47 But if I don't mention the fact that the same man has been arrested for the same crime
00:52 six times before, am I really informing you?
00:55 No, I'm not.
00:56 I'm misleading you.
00:58 And that's what the news media are doing in every story that matters, every day of
01:02 the week, every week of the year.
01:05 What's it like to work in a system like that?
01:08 After more than 30 years in the middle of it, we could tell you stories.
01:11 The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest
01:15 truth that you can.
01:17 But there are always limits.
01:19 And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for
01:24 it.
01:25 That's not a guess.
01:26 It's guaranteed.
01:27 Every person who works in English-language media understands that.
01:32 The rule of what you can't say defines everything.
01:35 It's filthy, really, and it's utterly corrupting.
01:39 You can't have a free society if people aren't allowed to say what they think is true.
01:44 Speech is the fundamental prerequisite for democracy.
01:47 That's why it's enshrined in the first of our constitutional amendments.
01:51 Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech.
01:56 The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter, where we are now.
02:03 Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops.
02:08 Twitter is not a partisan site.
02:10 Everybody's allowed here, and we think that's a good thing.
02:14 And yet for the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations
02:18 that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets.
02:22 You see it on cable news.
02:24 You talk about it on Twitter.
02:26 The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge.
02:31 We think that's a bad system.
02:33 We know exactly how it works, and we're sick of it.
02:37 Starting soon, we'll be bringing a new version of the show we've been doing for the last
02:40 six and a half years to Twitter.
02:43 We'll be bringing some other things too, which we'll tell you about.
02:45 But for now, we're just grateful to be here.
02:48 Free speech is the main right that you have.
02:51 Without it, you have no others.
02:53 See you soon.
02:53 [SILENCE]